Adjective Definition

dark

1.Definition: (used of color) having a dark hue

"Dark green", "Dark glasses", "Dark colors like wine red or navy blue"


2.Definition: brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)

"Dark eyes"


3.Definition: causing dejection

"The dark days of the war", "A dark gloomy day"

Related Adjective(s):blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry


4.Definition: 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"


5.Definition: lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture

"The dark ages", "A dark age in the history of education"

Related Adjective(s):benighted


6.Definition: marked by difficulty of style or expression

"Much that was dark is now quite clear to me"

Related Adjective(s):obscure


7.Definition: not giving performances; closed

"The theater is dark on Mondays"


8.Definition: secret

"Keep it dark"


9.Definition: showing a brooding ill humor

"A dark scowl"

Related Adjective(s):dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen


10.Definition: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

"Darth Vader of the dark side", "A dark purpose", "Dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"

Related Adjective(s):black, sinister




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