Dark - Definition

adj 1: devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed
or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark
shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" [ant:
light]
2: (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark
glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue" [ant:
light, light-colored]
3: brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"
4: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or
dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart
has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the
dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic
hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on
punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark,
sinister]
5: secret; "keep it dark"
6: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable
manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"-
Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark,
dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine,
sour, sullen]
7: lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this
benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and
superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of
education" [syn: benighted, dark]
8: marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was
dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate
Kafka's work say his style is obscure" [syn: dark,
obscure]
9: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter
landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November";
"a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue,
dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim,
sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
10: having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned
peoples" [syn: colored, coloured, dark, dark-
skinned, non-white]
11: not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on
Mondays"
n 1: absence of light or illumination [syn: dark, darkness]
[ant: light, lighting]
2: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of
darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark]
3: an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness" [syn:
darkness, dark, shadow]
4: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark
outside [syn: night, nighttime, dark] [ant: day,
daylight, daytime]
5: an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their
intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" [syn:
dark, darkness]