English Explanatory Dictionary

dark

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
  2. Extinguished.
  3. Deprived of sight; blind.
  4. Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
  5. Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
  6. Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
  7. Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
  8. Having racing capability not widely known.
  9. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
  10. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
  11. Lacking progress in science or the arts.
  12. Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
noun
  1. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
  2. Ignorance.
  3. Nightfall.
  4. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
verb
  1. To grow or become dark, darken.
  2. To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
  3. To make dark, darken; to obscure.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

därk /dɑːk/ /dɑɹk/ En-us-dark.ogg

Word forms

dark darker darkest darks darking darked

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”).

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 doused out quenched eyeless sightless unseeing sombre deep full fuscous languid muted inky intense saturated enigmatic esoteric mysterious undefined arcane mystic occult recondite clandestine hidden secret sinister surreptitious

Antonyms

bright glowing light lit luminous luminiferous radiant shining sunny aglow alight beamful beamsome beamy brilliant effulgent illuminating lambent lighted lucent luciferous lucific luminant lustrous orient profulgent refulgent resplendent sheeny shiny pale

Related words

darken darkling darkness Egyptian darkness dark colour black shadow Darke Darker

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 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-colored 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

Translations

Afrikaans: donker Albanian: errësire Albanian: terr Southern Altai: караҥу Southern Altai: караҥуй Arabic: مُظْلِم Arabic: دَاكِن Armenian: մութ Armenian: խավար Assamese: এন্ধাৰ Assamese: আন্ধাৰ Asturian: escuru Azerbaijani: qaranlıq Azerbaijani: qara Balinese: peteng Bashkir: ҡараңғы Basque: ilun Belarusian: цёмны Bengali: আঁধার Bengali: অন্ধকার Central Bikol: madiklom Breton: teñval Bulgarian: тъ́мен Burmese: နက် Burmese: မည်း Catalan: fosc Catalan: obscur Cebuano: dulom Chamicuro: chpolyaye Chechen: ӏаьржа Chinese Cantonese: 黑 Chinese Cantonese: 黑暗 Literary Chinese: 黲 Chinese Mandarin: 黑暗 Chinese Mandarin: 黲 /黪 Cornish: tewl Cornish: tewal Czech: tmavý Czech: temný Dalmatian: sčor Danish: mørk Dolgan: караӈа Dutch: donker Dutch: duister Esperanto: malluma Esperanto: malhela Estonian: tume Estonian: pime Faroese: myrkur Faroese: dimmur Faroese: døkkur Finnish: pimeä French: obscur French: sombre West-Frisian: tsjuster West-Frisian: donker Galician: escuro Galician: fosco Galician: fusco Georgian: ბნელი Georgian: შავბნელი Georgian: უკუნი Georgian: წყვდიადი German: dunkel German: finster Gilbertese: ro
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