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say it: dahrk
dark is an adjective and noun meaning "devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black". It carries 15 recorded senses.
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”
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”
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”
“a sour temper”
“a sullen crowd”
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”
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”
absence of light or illumination
absence of moral or spiritual values
“the powers of darkness”
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
an unenlightened state
“he was in the dark concerning their intentions”
“his lectures dispelled the darkness”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dark come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.