dark

Adjective

• not giving performances; closed
  • the theater is dark on Mondays
    

• having skin rich in melanin pigments
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
    
  • dark-skinned peoples
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

• secret
  • keep it dark
    

• 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
    

• brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
  • dark eyes
    

• (used of color) having a dark hue
  • dark green
    
  • dark glasses
    
  • dark colors like wine red or navy blue
    

• 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
    

Noun

• an unenlightened state
  • he was in the dark concerning their intentions
    
  • his lectures dispelled the darkness
    

• the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

• an unilluminated area
  • he moved off into the darkness
    

• absence of moral or spiritual values
  • the powers of darkness
    

• absence of light or illumination

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  colored , coloured , dark-skinned , non-white , obscure , benighted , dour , glowering , glum , moody , morose , saturnine , sour , sullen , black , sinister , darkness , night , nighttime , shadow , iniquity , wickedness
• Antonyms: 
  light , light-colored , day , daytime , daylight , lighting