dark
adjective
[ dɑːk ]
• with little or no light.
• "it's too dark to see much"
Similar:
black,
pitch black,
pitch dark,
inky,
jet black,
unlit,
unlighted,
unilluminated,
ill-lit,
poorly lit,
starless,
moonless,
dim,
dingy,
gloomy,
dusky,
indistinct,
shadowy,
shady,
leaden,
overcast,
sunless,
crepuscular,
tenebrous,
Stygian,
Cimmerian,
Tartarean,
caliginous,
• (of a colour or object) not reflecting much light; approaching black in shade.
• "dark green"
• (of a period or situation) characterized by great unhappiness or unpleasantness.
• "the dark days of the war"
Similar:
tragic,
disastrous,
calamitous,
catastrophic,
cataclysmic,
ruinous,
devastating,
dire,
ghastly,
awful,
unfortunate,
dreadful,
horrible,
terrible,
horrific,
hideous,
horrendous,
frightful,
atrocious,
abominable,
abhorrent,
gruesome,
grisly,
monstrous,
nightmarish,
heinous,
harrowing,
wretched,
woeful,
direful,
• hidden from knowledge; mysterious.
• "a dark secret"
Similar:
mysterious,
secret,
hidden,
concealed,
veiled,
unrevealed,
covert,
clandestine,
enigmatic,
arcane,
esoteric,
obscure,
abstruse,
recondite,
recherché,
inscrutable,
impenetrable,
opaque,
incomprehensible,
cryptic,
black,
• denoting a velarized form of the sound of the letter l as it sounds at the end of a word or before another consonant (as in full or bulk in most accents of English).
dark
noun
• the absence of light in a place.
• "Carolyn was sitting in the dark"
Similar:
darkness,
blackness,
absence of light,
gloom,
gloominess,
dimness,
dullness,
murk,
murkiness,
shadowiness,
shadow,
shade,
shadiness,
dusk,
twilight,
gloaming,
tenebrosity,
• a dark colour or shade, especially in a painting.
• "lights and darks are juxtaposed arbitrarily to create a sense of shallow relief"
Origin:
Old English deorc, of Germanic origin, probably distantly related to German tarnen ‘conceal’.
in the dark
• in a state of ignorance.
• "the player is still in the dark about his future"
Similar:
unaware of,
ignorant of,
in ignorance of,
oblivious to,
uninformed about,
unenlightened about,
unacquainted with,
unconversant with,
nescient of,
