Dark

Adjective



 * 1) Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
 * 2)  Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
 * 3) Hidden, secret
 * 4) Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
 * 5) Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak
 * 6) Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period
 * 7) With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either
 * 8)  Extinguished.

Noun

 * 1) A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
 * 2)  Ignorance.
 * 3)  Nightfall.

Adjectives for Dark
perilous; fierce; haunted; shuddering; leafy; lugubrious; frosty; shadowed; impenetrable; ambrosia; silent; abysmal; peaceful; fragrant; creeping; intricate; tinkling, adverbs mysteriously; impenetrably; perilously; lugubriously; peacefully; abysmally; dismally; fragrantly; suddenly; appreciably; blessedly; fearfully; frightfully; alarmingly; intensely; totally; utterly; pitchy; eerily; unnaturally; bewilderingly; oppressively; increasingly; uneasily; thickly.

Synonyms for Dark

 * dim, gloomy
 * hidden, secret, sinister
 * malign, sinister
 * deep
 * hopeless, negative, pessimistic
 * obscure, dismal, shadowy, murky, gloomy, opaque, black, somber, shady, swarthy, dusky, overcast, clouded, mysterious.

Antonyms for Dark

 * bright, light, lit
 * bright, light, pale
 * transparent, vivid, clear, manifest, plain, visible, apparent, evident, distinct, illumined, brilliant, lucid.

Derived terms

 * after dark = after night has fallen
 * all cats are gray in the dark
 * at dark = during nightfall
 * bedarken
 * before dark = before night starts falling
 * Dark Ages
 * dark blue
 * dark brown
 * dark chocolate
 * dark comedy
 * Dark Continent
 * dark current
 * dark elves
 * darken
 * dark energy
 * darkey
 * dark fiber
 * dark field, darkfield
 * dark figure
 * darkful
 * dark glasses
 * dark green


 * dark horse
 * dark house
 * darkie
 * darkish
 * dark lantern
 * darkle
 * dark matter
 * dark meat
 * dark nebula
 * darkness
 * dark reaction
 * dark red
 * dark room/dark-room/darkroom
 * dark-skinned
 * the dark side = a distinctly negative ethical paradigm (see Wikipedia article).
 * darksome
 * dark space
 * dark star
 * darky
 * endark
 * oh dark thirty
 * pitch-dark
 * shot in the dark
 * whistle in the dark

Thesaurus
age of ignorance, amaurotic, amoral, amorphous, amorphousness, apocalyptic, arcane, arrant, atramentous, atrocious, bad, baleful, baneful, barbarism, base, beamless, beetle-browed, benighted, benightedness, benightment, bereft of light, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black-browed, black-skinned, blackish, blackness, blamable, blameworthy, bleak, blear, bleared, bleary, blind, blurred, blurry, bodeful, boding, brown, brunet, cabalistic, caliginous, castellatus, censored, cheerless, cirrose, cirrous, classified, clear as mud, close, closed, closemouthed, cloud-flecked, clouded, cloudy, coal-black, coaly, color-blind, colored, complicated, concealed, confused, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, cryptic, cumuliform, cumulous, damnable, dark age, dark as night, dark as pitch, dark-colored, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkish, darkling, darkness, darkness visible, darksome, dead of night, deep, deep black, dejected, devilish, devious, dim, dim-sighted, dire, dirty, discreet, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, dismal, doleful, doomful, doubtful, dour, drab, drear, drearisome, dreary, dubious, dull, dumpish, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, enigmatic, esoteric, evasive, evil, evil-starred, execrable, eyeless, faint, fateful, feeble, felonious, filmy, fishy, flagitious, flagrant, fog, fogginess, foggy, foreboding, foul, fraudulent, frowning, funebrial, funereal, fuzziness, fuzzy, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, glowering, glum, grave, gray, grim, grum, grumly, half-seen, half-visible, hazy, heathenism, heavy, heinous, hellish, hemeralopic, hermetic, hidden, hush-hush, ignorance, ignorant, ill, ill-boding, ill-defined, ill-fated, ill-got, ill-gotten, ill-lighted, ill-lit, ill-omened, ill-starred, immoral, impenetrable, impervious to light, improper, in darkness, in the dark, inauspicious, incomprehensible, inconspicuous, indefinite, indeterminate, indeterminateness, indirect, indistinct, indistinctness, indistinguishable, infamous, iniquitous, ink-black, inky, insidious, intense darkness, intransparent, intricate, jetty, joyless, knavish, knotty, latent, lenticularis, lightlessness, low, low-profile, lowering, mammatus, melancholy, melanian, melanic, melanistic, melano, melanotic, melanous, menacing, merely glimpsed, midnight, mind-blind, mist, mistiness, misty, monstrous, moodish, moody, moonlessness, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mournful, muddy, mumbo jumbo, mumpish, murk, murkiness, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystification, mystifying, naughty, nebulous, nefarious, night, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nightfall, nigrescent, nigrous, nimbose, not kosher, nubilous, nyctalopic, obfuscated, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, obscure, obscure darkness, obscured, obscurity, occult, occulted, of evil portent, ominous, opacity, opaque, out of focus, overcast, overclouded, paganism, pale, peccant, perplexity, pessimistic, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitch-darkness, pitchy, pitchy darkness, portending, profound, puzzling, questionable, rank, raven, raven-black, rayless, recondite, reprehensible, reprobate, restricted, roiled, roily, rotten, sable, sad, satanic, saturnine, savagery, scandalous, scowling, secret, secretive, semivisible, shadowy, shady, shameful, shameless, shapeless, shapelessness, shifty, sightless, sinful, sinister, slippery, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smothered, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sorrowful, spiritually blind, squally, stark blind, starless, starlessness, stifled, stone-blind, stormy, stratiform, stratous, subfusc, sulky, sullen, sunless, sunlessness, suntanned, suppressed, surly, suspicious, swart, swarth, swarthiness, swarthy, tar-black, tarry, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrosity, tenebrous, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, threatening, thunderheaded, top secret, total darkness, transcendent, tricky, triste, turbid, ulterior, unbreatheable, uncertain, unclarity, unclear, unclearness, uncommunicative, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, undefined, under security, under wraps, underhand, underhanded, undiscerning, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unenlightened, unenlightenment, unethical, unfathomable, unfavorable, unforgivable, unfortunate, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit, unlucky, unobserving, unpardonable, unperceiving, unplain, unplainness, unprincipled, unpromising, unpropitious, unrecognizable, unrevealable, unrevealed, unsavory, unscrupulous, unseeing, unspeakable, unspoken, unstraightforward, untellable, untold, untoward, unutterable, unuttered, unwhisperable, unworthy, vague, vagueness, velvet darkness, vicious, vile, villainous, visionless, weak, weariful, wearisome, weary, wicked, without remorse, without shame, wrong

Etymology
From deorc, from, from either  or ; perhaps both, with the latter being derived from the former.

Adjective

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: مظلم
 * Armenian: ,
 * Breton: teñval
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: (hēiàn)
 * Chinese Characters: (àn)
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Gilbertese: ro
 * Greek: (skoteinós)
 * Hebrew: חשוך (khashukh), חשוכה (khashukha)
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: dökkur, dökk, dökkt, dimmur, dimm, dimmt
 * Interlingua: obscur
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: қараңғы


 * Korean: 어둡다 (eodupda)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: tumšs, tumša
 * Lithuanian: tamsus, tamsi
 * Malay: gelap
 * Malayalam: ഇരുട്ട് (iruttu), അന്ധകാരം (andhakaaram)
 * Marathi: अंधार, अंधकार, काळोख
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Scots: mirk
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:, , мрак
 * Slovene: temen, temna , temno
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: இருள்
 * Telugu: చీకటి (cheekaTi), గాఢాంధకారము
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: tywyll
 * West Frisian: tsjuster, donker
 * !Xóõ: dtʻkxʻái


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: тъмен
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: (yǐnmì de)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: dunkel, hemmelighedsfuld
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: गुप्त, छिपा हुवा
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 隠密の, 秘密の


 * Korean: 어둡다 (eodupda)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Latvian: tumšs, tumša
 * Marathi: गुप्त, लपलेले
 * Persian: پنهان, نهان, پوشیده
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: obscuro
 * Serbian: zamračeno, zatamnjeno
 * Slovene: temen, temna , temno
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మర్మము
 * Vietnamese:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: мрачен
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: (xiéè de)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: mørk, skummel


 * Finnish: ,
 * Hebrew: אפל (afel), קודר
 * Japanese: 邪悪な,
 * Korean: 어둡다 (eodupda)
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian: mračno, mračan , mračna
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: тъмен, мрачен
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: (hēiàn)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: mørke-
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese:, 濃い
 * Korean: 어둡다 (eodupda)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:


 * Latvian: tumšs, tumša
 * Marathi: फिके
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: mirk
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: pomračno
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: koyu
 * West Frisian: donker


 * : errët, murgash
 * : fosc
 * : taman
 * : sombre
 * : tenebroza
 * : buio, tenebroso, oscuro, fosco


 * : tamsus
 * : dökkr
 * : intunecat, sumbru, obscur
 * : mračan, mračna , mračno
 * : tmavý
 * : oscuro
 * : అంధకారం (aMdhakaaraM)

Noun

 * Armenian: ,
 * Breton: teñvalded
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (hēi),  (hēiàn)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חושך, (khoshekh) ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 暗黒 (ankoku), 暗闇 (kurayami), 闇 (yami)


 * Korean: 어둠 (eodum), 암흑 (amheuk)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:
 * Latin: obscuritas
 * Latvian: tumsa
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian: mørke
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scots: mirk
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: tama, tamnoća, polumrak (semi dark), tamnina, mrak
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: bóng tối


 * Armenian:
 * Breton: teñvalijenn
 * Bulgarian: невидение, незнание
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (hēiàn)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: uvidenhed
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Hungarian: tudatlanság
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 무식 (musik)
 * Latin: obscuritas
 * Malayalam: അറിവില്ലായ്‌മ (aRivillayma), അജ്ഞത (ajnjatha)
 * Polish: mroki pl n
 * Russian: неведение (n'ev'éd'enije)
 * Slovene: nevednost
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: (sự) dốt nát, (sự) ngu dốt, (sự) ngu muội


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: свечеряване
 * Chinese:
 * Mandaring: (huánghūn)
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: mørke, skumring
 * Dutch: het vallen van de avond
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Dunkelwerden
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: sötétedés
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean: 해질녘 (haejilnyeok)
 * Latin: annoctatio
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: gloamin, mirk
 * Serbian: mrak, tamnoća, tamnina
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * : terr
 * : teñvalijenn
 * : fosca
 * : noir, obscurité
 * : tenebro
 * : buio


 * : intuneric, obscuritate
 * : mrak
 * : చీకటి (cIkaTi), నిశి (niSi), నిశీధి (niSIdhi), రాత్రి (raatri)

Anagrams

 * k-rad

Adjective
dark


 * 1) dark (used especially to describe a form of punk music)