| dark | |
| 1. adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light. | |
| The room was too dark for reading. | |
| 2. adj. (of a source of light) Extinguished. | |
| Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs. | |
| 3. adj. Deprived of sight; blind. | |
| 4. adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light. | |
| my sister's hair is darker than mine; her skin grew dark with a suntan | |
| 5. adj. Hidden, secret, obscure. | |
| 6. adj. Not clear to the understanding; not easily through; obscure; mysterious; hidden. | |
| 7. adj. (betting, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known. | |
| 8. adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign. | |
| a dark villain; a dark deed | |
| 9. adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak. | |
| the Great Depression was a dark time; the film was a dark psychological thriller | |
| 10. adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period. | |
| 11. adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either. | |
| The ending of this book is rather dark. | |
| 12. n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. | |
| Dark surrounds us completely. | |
| 13. n. Ignorance. | |
| We kept him in the dark. | |
| The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed. | |
| 14. n. Nightfall. | |
| It was after dark before we got to playing baseball. | |
| 15. n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc. | |
