dark
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
gambling
games
media
Etymology: From Middle English derk, from Old English deorc, from Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“dim, dull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“dull, dirty”).
Inflected forms:
form: darker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: darkest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: darks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: darks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: darking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: darked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: darked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
pos: adj
examples: The room was too dark for reading.
It was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets […]
They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
gloss: Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
pos: adj
examples: Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
gloss: Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
pos: adj
examples: He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.
gloss: Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
pos: adj
gloss: Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
pos: adj
examples: My sister’s hair is darker than mine.
Her skin grew dark with a suntan.
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
gloss: Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
pos: adj
examples: What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate,
Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors;
Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain,
Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]
It is the remark of an ingenious writer, should a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a palace or a ship, view their separate and disjointed parts, and observe the pillars, doors, windows, cornices and turrets of the one, or the prow and stern, the ribs and masts, the ropes and shrouds, the sails and tackle of the other, he would be able to form but a very lame and dark idea of either of those excellent and useful inventions.
the dark problems of existence
gloss: Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
pos: adj
examples: The dark side of the moon.
dark money
Meantime we shall express our darker purpose
“Clarence, can you lend me three thousand pounds on good security and keep it dark from Connie?”
gloss: Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
pos: adj
examples: The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless [Duke of] St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
gloss: Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
pos: adj
examples: a dark villain
a dark deed
Left him at large to his own dark designs.
gloss: Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
pos: adj
examples: The Great Depression was a dark time.
The film was a dark psychological thriller.
A deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
There is, in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
gloss: Lacking progress in science or the arts.
pos: adj
examples: The dark ages began after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
The Greek Dark Ages began after the Bronze Age collapse.
The age wherein he lived was dark, but he
 Could not want light who taught the world to see.
The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.
gloss: Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
pos: adj
examples: September 11, 2001, the day when four terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is often referred to as America’s dark day.
gloss: With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
pos: adj
examples: The ending of this book is rather dark.
This show is full of dark humor.
gloss: Off the air; not transmitting.
pos: adj
gloss: A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Dark surrounds us completely.
Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
gloss: Ignorance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We kept him in the dark.
The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.
Till we perceive it by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as before.
gloss: Nightfall.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
gloss: A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.
gloss: To grow or become dark, darken.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
gloss: To make dark, darken; to obscure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: blear
caliginous
cimmerian
crepuscular
dark
darksome
darkling
dim
dimpsy
dingy
dull
dusky
fuliginous
gloomy
infernal
leaden
lightless
mirksome
murky
murksome
obscure
shady
somber
sombrous
stygian
sunless
swarthy
tenebrose
tenebrous
twilightish
umbrageous
unilluminated
evenfall
mirkning
Antonyms: bright
glowing
light
lit
luminous
luminiferous
radiant
shining
sunny
Related words: darken
darkling
darkness
Egyptian darkness
dark colour
black
shadow
Derived words: 0-dark-hundred
0-dark-thirty
Alexander's dark band
all cats are grey in the dark
antidark
bedark
dark academia
dark academic
dark-activity
dark-adapted
dark advertising
dark age
dark ages
Dark Ages
Dark Alfs
dark alternative scene
dark ambient
dark and stormy
dark art
dark as Egypt
dark as pitch
dark as the inside of a cow
dark blue
dark-blue snakeweed
dark blue snakeweed
Dark Brandon
dark bread
dark brown
dark cabaret
dark chocolate
dark cloud
dark comedy
Dark Continent
darkcore
Dark Corner
dark corn syrup
dark crimson underwing
dark culture
dark current
dark cutter
darkcutter
darkcutting
dark data
dark earth
dark elf
dark empath
dark energy
Dark Enlightenment
dark-eyed
dark-eyed junco
dark factory
darkfall
dark fantasy
dark fiber
dark fibre
darkfic
darkfield
dark field
dark figure
dark fleet
dark flight
dark flow
dark fluid
dark forest hypothesis
darkful
dark fungus
dark glasses
dark gopher frog
dark green fritillary
dark-haired
dark-hearted
dark hearted
darkhorse
dark-horse
dark horse
dark house
dark humor
dark humour
dark hydrogen
darkie
darkey
darky
darkish
dark jungle glory
dark kitchen
dark l
dark-lantern
dark lantern
dark-lanthorn
dark lanthorn
dark life
dark light
darkling
darkly
Dark MAGA
dark magic
darkmans
dark market
dark matter
dark meat
dark mode
dark money
dark moon
dark nebula
dark-necked tailorbird
darknet
dark night
dark night of the soul
darkon
dark o’clock
dark pattern
dark pool
dark post
darkpsy
dark reaction
dark red
dark ride
dark romance
darkroom
dark satanic mill
dark sector
dark shyshark
darkside
dark-side
dark side
dark side of the Force
darkskin
dark-skinned
dark sleeper
dark slide
dark social
dark soliton
darksome
dark space
dark spinach
dark star
dark store
dark territory
dark thirty
dark tourism
dark tourist
darktown
dark trading
dark traffic
dark triad
dark up
dark vowel
darkward
darkwards
darkwave
dark wave
Dark Web
dark web
dark woke
dark world
dark-zilla
Darth
Darth Vader
endark
European dark bee
every dark cloud has a silver lining
Faraday dark space
go dark
grimdark
Joan's as good as my lady in the dark
look on the dark side
look on the dark side of it
non-baryonic dark matter
o-dark-thirty
oh-dark-thirty
oh dark hundred
pitch-dark
pitch dark
the dark side of the moon
semidark
stab in the dark
take a shot in the dark
the darkest hour is just before the dawn
warm dark matter
wine-dark
zero dark thirty
after dark
all cats are gray in the dark
at dark
before dark
black dark
dusky dark
glow-in-the-dark
in the dark
leap in the dark
murder in the dark
oh dark thirty
shot in the dark
whistle in the dark
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: donker
lang: Albanian
word: errësire
lang: Albanian
word: terr
lang: Southern Altai
word: караҥу
roman: karaŋu
lang: Southern Altai
word: караҥуй
roman: karaŋuy
lang: Arabic
word: مُظْلِم
roman: muẓlim
lang: Arabic
word: دَاكِن
roman: dākin
lang: Armenian
word: մութ
roman: mutʻ
lang: Armenian
word: խավար
roman: xavar
lang: Assamese
word: এন্ধাৰ
roman: endhar
lang: Assamese
word: আন্ধাৰ
roman: andhar
lang: Asturian
word: escuru
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qaranlıq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qara
lang: Balinese
word: peteng
lang: Bashkir
word: ҡараңғы
roman: qarañğı
lang: Basque
word: ilun
lang: Belarusian
word: цёмны
roman: cjómny
lang: Bengali
word: আঁধার
roman: ãdhar
lang: Bengali
word: অন্ধকার
roman: ondhokar
lang: Central Bikol
word: madiklom
lang: Breton
word: teñval
lang: Bulgarian
word: тъ́мен
roman: tǎ́men
lang: Burmese
word: နက်
roman: nak
lang: Burmese
word: မည်း
roman: many:
lang: Catalan
word: fosc
lang: Catalan
word: obscur
lang: Cebuano
word: dulom
lang: Chamicuro
word: chpolyaye
lang: Chechen
word: ӏаьржа
roman: ˀärža
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 黑
roman: haak¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 黑暗
roman: hak¹ am³
lang: Literary Chinese
word: 黲
roman: cǎn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 黑暗
roman: hēi'àn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 黲 /黪
roman: cǎn
lang: Cornish
word: tewl
lang: Cornish
word: tewal
lang: Czech
word: tmavý
lang: Czech
word: temný
lang: Dalmatian
word: sčor
lang: Danish
word: mørk
lang: Dolgan
word: караӈа
lang: Dutch
word: donker
lang: Dutch
word: duister
lang: Esperanto
word: malluma
lang: Esperanto
word: malhela
lang: Estonian
word: tume
lang: Estonian
word: pime
lang: Faroese
word: myrkur
lang: Faroese
word: dimmur
lang: Faroese
word: døkkur
lang: Finnish
word: pimeä
lang: French
word: obscur
lang: French
word: sombre
lang: West-Frisian
word: tsjuster
lang: West-Frisian
word: donker
lang: Galician
word: escuro
lang: Galician
word: fosco
lang: Galician
word: fusco
lang: Georgian
word: ბნელი
roman: bneli
lang: Georgian
word: შავბნელი
roman: šavbneli
lang: Georgian
word: უკუნი
roman: uḳuni
lang: Georgian
word: წყვდიადი
roman: c̣q̇vdiadi
lang: German
word: dunkel
lang: German
word: finster
lang: Gilbertese
word: ro
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍂𐌹𐌵𐌹𐌶𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃
roman: riqizeins
lang: Greek
word: σκοτεινός
roman: skoteinós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σκοτεινός
roman: skoteinós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὀρφναῖος
roman: orphnaîos
lang: Mbya Guarani
word: pytũ
lang: Gujarati
word: અંધારું
roman: andhārũ
lang: Haitian Creole
word: nwa
lang: Hawaiian
word: ʻeleʻele
lang: Hawaiian
word: pōʻeleʻele
lang: Hawaiian
word: pōʻele
lang: Hawaiian
word: uli
lang: Hawaiian
word: uliuli
lang: Hebrew
word: חָשׁוּךְ
roman: khashukh
lang: Hebrew
word: אָפֵל
roman: afél
lang: Hiligaynon
word: dulum
lang: Hindi
word: अंधेरा
roman: andherā
lang: Hindi
word: श्यामल
roman: śyāmal
lang: Hungarian
word: sötét
lang: Icelandic
word: dökkur
lang: Icelandic
word: dimmur
lang: Ido
word: tenebroza
lang: Ido
word: obskura
lang: Tuwali Ifugao
word: ngitit
lang: Ilocano
word: nasipnget
lang: Indonesian
word: gelap
lang: Interlingua
word: obscur
lang: Irish
word: dorcha
lang: Italian
word: buio
lang: Italian
word: oscuro
lang: Italian
word: fosco
lang: Italian
word: tetro
lang: Japanese
word: 暗い
roman: kurai
lang: Javanese
word: peteng
lang: Old Javanese
word: hirĕng
lang: Old Javanese
word: pĕtĕng
lang: Kaitag
word: къуш
roman: ɢuš
lang: Lubuagan Kalinga
word: manggikbot
lang: Kapampangan
word: madalumdum
lang: Karachay-Balkar
word: къарангы
roman: qarañı
lang: Karaim
word: karanhy
lang: Kazakh
word: қараңғы
roman: qarañğy
lang: Komi-Permyak
word: пемыд
roman: pemyd
lang: Komi-Zyrian
word: пемыд
roman: pemyd
lang: Korean
word: 어둡다
roman: eodupda
lang: Kumyk
word: къарангы
roman: qarañı
lang: Central Kurdish
word: تاریک
roman: tarîk
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: tarî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: караңгы
roman: karaŋgı
lang: Ladino
word: aleskuro
lang: Ladino
word: eskuro
lang: Lao
word: ມືດ
roman: mư̄t
lang: Latgalian
word: tymss
lang: Latin
word: obscūrus
lang: Latin
word: creper
lang: Latin
word: fuscus
lang: Latvian
word: tumšs
lang: Lithuanian
word: tamsus
lang: Lombard
word: scur
lang: Low German
word: düster
lang: Low German
word: duster
lang: Luxembourgish
word: däischter
lang: Luxembourgish
word: donkel
lang: Lydian
word: 𐤪𐤠𐤭𐤦𐤥𐤣𐤠
roman: mariwda
lang: Macedonian
word: темен
roman: temen
lang: Malay
word: gelap
lang: Malay
word: kelam
lang: Brunei Malay
word: galap
lang: Brunei Malay
word: patang
lang: Malayalam
word: ഇരുട്ട്
roman: iruṭṭŭ
lang: Malayalam
word: അന്ധകാരം
roman: andhakāraṁ
lang: Māori
word: pokere
lang: Māori
word: pōkerekere
lang: Māori
word: uri
lang: Māori
word: uriuri
lang: Māori
word: wheuri
lang: Māori
word: whēuriuri
lang: Māori
word: ruki
lang: Marathi
word: अंधारमय
roman: andhārmay
lang: Mingrelian
word: ურწკუმი
roman: urc̣ḳumi
lang: Mongolian
word: харанхуй
roman: xaranxuj
lang: Mongolian
word: харангуй
roman: xaranguj
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: ānyāukhèm
lang: Nogai
word: каранъа
roman: karaña
lang: Norman
word: sombre
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: mørk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: mørk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: døkk
lang: Occitan
word: escur
lang: Occitan
word: fosc
lang: Odia
word: ଅନ୍ଧାର
roman: andhāra
lang: Ojibwe
word: dibiki-
lang: Church Slavic
word: тьмьнъ
roman: tĭmĭnŭ
lang: Old English
word: þīestre
lang: Old English
word: deorc
lang: Old English
word: mirce
lang: Old Norse
word: myrkr
lang: Old Norse
word: ámr
lang: Ossetian
word: тар
roman: tar
lang: Persian
word: تاریک
roman: târik
lang: Persian
word: تار
roman: târ
lang: Persian
word: تیره
roman: tire
lang: Plautdietsch
word: dunkel
lang: Polish
word: ciemny
lang: Portuguese
word: escuro
lang: Quechua
word: laqha
lang: Romanian
word: murg
lang: Romanian
word: închis
lang: Romanian
word: întunecat
lang: Romansh
word: stgir
lang: Romansh
word: stgeir
lang: Romansh
word: s-chür
lang: Russian
word: тёмный
roman: tjómnyj
lang: Northern Sami
word: seavdnjat
lang: Sanskrit
word: श्याम
roman: śyāma
lang: Scots
word: mirk
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dorcha
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: та́ма̄н
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мра́чан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: támān
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: mráčan
lang: Slovak
word: tmavý
lang: Slovak
word: temný
lang: Slovene
word: temen
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: śamny
lang: Spanish
word: oscuro
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: dungru
lang: Swedish
word: mörk
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠀꠘ꠆ꠗꠣꠁꠞ
roman: andáir
lang: Tagalog
word: madilim
lang: Tahitian
word: ʻārehurehu
lang: Tahitian
word: ʻereʻere
lang: Tajik
word: торик
roman: torik
lang: Tamil
word: இருள்
roman: iruḷ
lang: Tatar
word: караңгы
roman: qarañğı
lang: Telugu
word: చీకటి
roman: cīkaṭi
lang: Telugu
word: గాఢాంధకారము
roman: gāḍhāndhakāramu
lang: Thai
word: มืด
roman: mʉ̂ʉt
lang: Tocharian B
word: orkamo
lang: Tocharian B
word: orkmo
lang: Tofa
word: ӄараӈғы
roman: qaraňġy
lang: Tongan
word: po'uli
lang: Turkish
word: karanlık
lang: Turkmen
word: garaňky
lang: Tuvan
word: караңгы
roman: karañgı
lang: Udmurt
word: пеймыт
roman: pejmyt
lang: Ukrainian
word: те́мний
roman: témnyj
lang: Urdu
word: اندھیرا
roman: andherā
lang: Urum
word: харанғы
lang: Uyghur
word: قاراڭغۇ
roman: qarangghu
lang: Uzbek
word: qorongʻi
lang: Uzbek
word: qorongʻu
lang: Venetan
word: scùro
lang: Vietnamese
word: tối
lang: Waray-Waray
word: masirum
lang: Waray-Waray
word: dulum
lang: Welsh
word: tywyll
lang: Yaghnobi
word: тора
roman: tora
lang: Yakut
word: хараҥа
roman: qaraŋa
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿינצטער
roman: fintster
lang: Yiddish
word: טונקל
roman: tunkl
lang: Zazaki
word: tarı
lang: ǃXóõ
word: dtʻkxʻái