Meaning & Definition of Dark in English

1. Absence of light or illumination

2. Absence of moral or spiritual values

• "The powers of darkness"

3. An unilluminated area

• "He moved off into the darkness"

4. The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

5. An unenlightened state

• "He was in the dark concerning their intentions"

• "His lectures dispelled the darkness"

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"

2. (used of color) having a dark hue

• "Dark green"

• "Dark glasses"

• "Dark colors like wine red or navy blue"

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

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"

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"

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"

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"

10. Having skin rich in melanin pigments

• "National association for the advancement of colored people"

• "Dark-skinned peoples"

11. Not giving performances

• Closed

• "The theater is dark on mondays"