Dark

Definition: Dark

Dark

Adjective

1. Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "the theater is dark on Mondays"; "dark as the inside of a black cat".

2. (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue".

3. (used of hair or skin or eyes) "dark eyes".

4. 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.

5. 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".

6. Secret; "keep it dark"; "the dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East".

7. 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".

8. 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".

9. 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".

10. : having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples".

11. : not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays".

Noun

1. Absence of light or illumination.

2. Absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness".

3. An unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness".

4. The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside.

5. An unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dark" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Dark

Concealment

Adjective: concealed; Verb: hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous.

Dejection

Adjective: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.

Hopelessness

Phrase: "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate"; its days are numbered; the worst come to the worst; "no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure"; "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon"; "mene mene tekel upharson".

Improbity

False-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double-hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving, crooked, tortuous,insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured.

Latency Implication

Unapparent, unknown, unseen; in the background; invisible; indiscoverable, dark; impenetrable; (unintelligible); unspied, unsuspected.

Unintelligibility

Obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim, nebulous, shrouded in mystery; opaque, dense; undiscernible; (invisible); misty; (opaque); hidden; latent.

Crosswords: Dark

German (dunkel).

Who will take care of me my love, my dark angel, when you are gone (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

You see, this is my life! It always will be! Nothing else! Just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark! All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up (Sunset Blvd.; writing credit: Charles Brackett)

It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and John Landis.)

Dark have been my days of late (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Coming out of the dark, I know the love that saved me (COMING OUT OF THE DARK; performing artist: Gloria Estefan)

Dark and metric is my town, (Dark and Metric; performing artist: They Might Be Giants)

They were smooching in the dark (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC)

I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

I followed daylight right into the dark (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

Foot: A device for finding furniture in the dark. (references; author: unknown)

Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark. (references; author: unknown)

Your smile lights up a room like a candle in the dark. (references; author: unknown)

Equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate is a balanced diet. (references; author: unknown)

Dark City (1998)

Incident on a Dark Street (1973)

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973)

Dark Places (1973)

Bright and Dark Lisa (1973)

Coming Out Of The Dark (performing artist: Gloria Estefan)

On The Dark Side (performing artist: John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band)

Whistling In The Dark (performing artist: They Might Be Giants)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Dark Spirits (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Dark Spirits in Asia (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (reference)

• A Dark and Bloody Ground: The Hurtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944-1945 (Texas A&m University Military History Series, No 42) (reference)

• Rebel of Dark Creek (Stable Mates, 1) (reference)

• Dark Property: An Affliction (reference)

• Bright Lights Dark Shadows: The Real Story of ABBA (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Dark Man (reference)

• Dark Realms (reference)

• Dark Report (reference)

• Tobacco Market Review: Fire- Cured And Dark Air-cured (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dark Shadows DVD Collection 1 (reference)

• Dark Passage (reference)

• House of Dark Shadows (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Dancing in the Dark (reference)

• Dark Light (reference)

• In the Falling Dark [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories (reference)

• JBL N24 Northridge Series Bookshelf Speakers (Pair, Dark Gray) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Glow in the Dark Musical Mobile (reference)

• Seatsaver Car Seat Mat - Dark Blue (reference)

• FrancisFrancis! X1 Espresso Machine, Dark Blue (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The earliest visible stage of HIV replication occurs when viral proteins accumulate under the cell membrane in a process called budding (a). In the next stage a crescent shaped early bud has constricted, forming a membrane-encapsulated sphere, with the dense center called a viral nucleoid (b). As the constricting process continues, the virus pinches off and becomes free extracellular infectious virus (c). At this stage, the dark circular mucleoid condenses into a bar; this morphologic feature is used to discriminate HIV-I from HTLV-II and HTLV-III. See artwork: GR-31. Credit: Dr. Matthew Gonda (photographer).

Pictured are instruments used in endoscopy. They are highlighted in an otherwise dark picture and lying on a textured cloth. Shown are flexible fibers, a small brush and a third instrument in some photos. The fibers transmit high intensity light through the endoscope shown. The brushes are used to take biopsies. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

A blocked flea, i.e. dark spots in stomach, is unable to ingest its blood meal because of a mass of bacteria within the proventriculus, preventing passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach. Credit: CDC.

Common characteristics of Anopheles crucians are long, black proboscis, the palpus is a little shorter than probiscis, and a pair of dark gray submedian longitudinal stripes on the thorax. This mosquito may be a vector for malaria. Credit: CDC.

Tightly wound, almost concentric, arms of dark dust encircle the bright nucleus of the galaxy ... Credit: NASA.

Strangely glowing dark clouds float serenely in this remarkable and beautiful image taken with ... Credit: NASA.

Color image of Neptune showing its "Great Dark Spot". Credit: NASA.

Closer view of the Great Dark Spot and the "scooter". Credit: NASA.

Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Bald Eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, adults (more than 5 years old) are unmistakable with dark brown plumage except for white head, neck and tails. The beak, eyes, legs, and feet are yellow. Wing span up to 2.5 meters, with females considerably larger than males. Immature eagles lack white plumage and yellow accents. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A very dark color variation of the southern flounder, Paralicthys legostigma. Both sides of this fish are darkly pigmented. Only the head on the ventral side shows the traditional light color. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. (reference)

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1929)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

As to any thing superior for you, I suppose she is quite in the dark.

The Professor rapidly arranged them in two rows, so as to make a dark passage, leading straight from the door to the mouth of the cage

The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands

Yet did the physician, in his dark way, creep frightfully near the secret

It was a sickening smile, for the corners of her mouth were stained with blood, and a dark cavity revealed itself there

Soon all would be dark and sleeping

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.

And in the growing year the warmth grows and the leaves turn dark green

It was dark, and had a dirt floor for the most part, dank, clammy, and aguish, only here a board and there a board which would not bear removal

I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Look at the things listed in dark print below. (references)

Pigment stones are small, dark stones made of bilirubin. (references)

In persons with dark hair, the adult louse will look darker. (references)

Business

For any season, dark conservative colors are the most popular. (references)

Although negotiations are gathering pace, international oil companies remain in the dark about their tax burden on profits, especially on gas production. (references)

Civil Liberties

Dominican Republic

They approach persons who look like Haitians, including persons who have very dark complexions and fairly poor clothing. (references)

Sri Lanka

The Constitution grants every citizen "freedom of movement and of choosing his residence" and "freedom to return to [the country]," and the Government generally respects the right to domestic and foreign travel; however, the war with the LTTE prompted the Government to impose more stringent checks on travelers from the north and the east and on movement in Colombo, particularly after dark. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

The main wheat classes purchased from the U.S. are Dark Northern Spring and Western White. (references)

Human Rights

Nicaragua

Some prisons and many police holding cells were dark, poorly ventilated, and unhygienic. (references)

Cambodia

Use of shackles and the practice of holding prisoners in small, dark cells continued in some prisons after escape attempts. (references)

Cameroon

The officer must have a warrant to make such a search after dark; however, a police officer may enter a private home at any time in pursuit of a criminal observed committing a crime. (references)

Minorities

Russia

Law enforcement authorities also targeted persons with dark complexions for harassment, arrest, and deportation from urban centers. (references)

Russia

Police reportedly beat, harassed, and demanded bribes from persons with dark skin, or who appeared to be from the Caucasus, Central Asia, or Africa. (references)

Argentina

Individuals of indigenous descent from the northern part of the country, as well as from Bolivia, Peru, and other Latin American countries, reportedly are also frequently subject to verbal insults because of their dark skin. (references)

Political Economy

Georgia

Georgia emerged from the dark winter of 2000, plagued by a gas cut-off by Russia and a drought, which reduced hydropower. (references)

Trade

Ecuador

Since September 1998, new excise taxes are levied on all liquor (26.78 percent), beer (30.9 percent), soft drinks (10.3 percent), cigarettes (light 77.25 percent, dark 18.54 percent), motor vehicles up to 3 tons (5.15 percent), aircraft, helicopters, and ships (10.3 percent). (references)

Travel

Liberia

Travel anywhere in Liberia after dark is discouraged. (references)

Women

Marshall Islands

Violence against women outside the family occurs, and women in urban centers risk assault by going out alone after dark. (references)

Niger

Among the Hausa and Peul ethnic groups in the east, some women are cloistered and may leave their homes only if escorted by a male and usually only after dark. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dark": A dark horse ♦ a dark purpose ♦ a leap in the dark ♦ a shot in the dark ♦ afraid of the dark ♦ after dark ♦ as dark as pitch ♦ Aston dark space ♦ at dark ♦ be dark ♦ be in the dark ♦ be in the dark about smth. ♦ become dark ♦ before dark ♦ dark adaptation ♦ dark age ♦ dark ages ♦ dark beer ♦ dark blue ♦ dark box ♦ dark bread ♦ dark brown ♦ dark burn ♦ dark chocolate ♦ dark cloud ♦ dark continent ♦ dark cutch ♦ dark day ♦ dark eyes ♦ dark fiber ♦ dark fibre ♦ dark field ♦ dark field illumination ♦ dark field microscope ♦ dark forces ♦ dark glass ♦ dark glasses ♦ dark green ♦ dark grey ♦ dark ground illumination ♦ dark heart ♦ dark horse ♦ Dark house ♦ dark lantern ♦ dark man ♦ Dark Matter Search ♦ dark meat ♦ dark nilas ♦ dark of the moon ♦ dark red ♦ dark red silver ore ♦ dark room ♦ dark ruby silver ♦ dark rye bread ♦ Dark sentence ♦ dark side ♦ dark side of the moon ♦ dark slide ♦ dark suit ♦ dark thoughts ♦ every dark cloud has a silver lining ♦ Faraday dark space ♦ get dark ♦ go grope one's way in the dark ♦ grope in the dark ♦ grow dark ♦ in the dark ♦ it is dark ♦ it is getting dark ♦ it is pitch dark ♦ it's getting dark ♦ it's pitch dark here ♦ keep dark ♦ keep in dark ♦ keep in the dark ♦ keep it dark ♦ keep smb. in the dark ♦ keep smth. dark ♦ leap in the dark ♦ leave smb. in the dark ♦ life's dark side ♦ look on the dark side of things ♦ make dark ♦ pitch dark ♦ take a leap in the dark ♦ the dark ♦ the dark ages ♦ The Dark and Bloody Ground ♦ the dark blues ♦ The dark day ♦ the dark race ♦ To keep dark ♦ when it got dark. Additional references.

Beginning with "dark": dark-age, dark-avised, dark-backed, dark-background, dark-beamed, dark-bearded, dark-bellied, dark-blond, dark-blonde, dark-blue, dark-blues, dark-bottomed, dark-breasted, dark-browed, dark-brown, dark-burnt, dark-capped, dark-clad, dark-cloaked, dark-clothed, dark-coated, dark-coloured, dark-complected, dark-complexioned, dark-corner, dark-current, dark-curtained, dark-dark-grey, dark-dressed, dark-eyed, dark-eyed junco, dark-faced, dark-feathered, dark-featured, dark-field, dark-field microscope, dark-flowing, dark-framed, dark-fringed, dark-furred, dark-glass, dark-glassed, dark-gold, dark-gowned, dark-green, dark-greens, dark-grey, dark-ground, dark-haired, dark-haired man, dark-hared, dark-headed, dark-hole-eyed, dark-hued, dark-humoured, dark-i, dark-jacketed, dark-lashed, dark-leafed, dark-leaved, dark-legged, dark-light, dark-lined, dark-looking, dark-matter, dark-natured, dark-nippled, dark-packed, dark-painted, dark-panelled, dark-pastoral, dark-pillared, dark-pupilled, dark-purple, dark-red, dark-rimmed, dark-ringed, dark-ringleted, dark-robed, dark-room, dark-rose-and-amber, dark-scarlet, dark-shadowed, dark-ship, dark-side hacker, dark-skinned, Dark-Sky, dark-spotted, dark-stained, dark-stockinged, dark-stone, dark-stoned, dark-striped, dark-suited, dark-swollen, dark-tanned, dark-tasting, dark-thoughted, dark-timbre, dark-tipped, dark-toned, dark-vowelled, dark-walled, dark-windowed, dark-winged, dark-wood, dark-wooled, dark-yellow.

Ending with "dark": after-dark, all-dark, Beaumont-dark, light-dark, night-dark, semi-dark, wine-dark.

Containing "dark": beige-and-dark-brown, medium-dark-grey, pink-and-dark-green.

Afrikaans

duister (dim), donker (bleak, dim, dismal, dreary). (various references)

Albanian

i ulët (base, contemptible, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, petty, primary, rascally, scrubby, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), hije (apparition, background, cloud, color, colour, ghost, loom, phantasm, phantom, propriety, reflection, reflexion, shade, shadow, spirit, spook, umbra, wraith), i çuditshëm (bizarre, cranky, curious, eccentric, electric, erratic, extraordinary, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, frabjous, freak, freakish, funny, grotesque, kinky, odd, oddish, off beat, outlandish, peculiar, pixilated, puzzling, quaint, queer, quizzical, rummy, strange, surprising, uncanny, unco, unnatural, unusual, viewy, way out, weird, whimsical), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous), i fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, insidious, internal, latent, occult, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, secret, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, veiled), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, defective, dubious, evil, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked), i ngrysur (dismal, farouche, gloomy, heavy, lowering, lugubrious, morose, saturnine, somber, sombre, sulky, sullen, woebegone), i paedukuar (ignoramus, ill bred, ill mannered, illiberal, indocile, inurbane, mannerless, rude, uneducated, unenlightened, unintelligent, unlearned, unmannerly, unnurtured, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, without cultural interests), i pandershëm (base, conscienceless, devious, dirty, dishonest, disreputable, ill gotten, knavish, mean, rascally, raw, roguish, unfaithful, unscrupulous, unsportsmanlike), errësi (darkness), i trishtuar (blue, cheerless, comfortless, disappointed, disappointing, doleful, down, dreary, elegiac, funereal, gloomy, grievous, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, miserable, mopish, mournful, pensive, rueful, sad, tristful, unhappy, vapoury, wailful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful, woesome), zeshkan (Brown, swarthy), i zeshkët (swart, swarthy), i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), injorancë (ignorance, nescience), muzg (afterglow, dusk, duskiness, gloaming, nightfall, owl-light, shadow, sunset, twilight), natë (darkness, night, nighttime), padije (nescience), padituri (ignorance), terr (darkness, mirk, murk, obscurity, opaque), i paqartë (abstract, dim, doubtful, dubious, dusky, evasive, inarticulate, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, muddy, nebulous, obscure, out of focus, recondite, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unknowable, unreadable, vague). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏مكفهر (cloudy, dusky, gloomy, overcast, surly), ‏مكان مظلم (darkness, gloom), ‏معتم (cloud-capped, cloudy, dim, dusk, dusky, gloomy, murky, obscure, overcast), ‏مظلم (black, dim, dun, dusk, gloomy, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, overcast, tenebrous), ‏مبهم (abstruse, ambiguous, cryptic, dim, enigmatic, equivocal, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inscrutable, misty, mysterious, mystic, obscure, recondite, unclear, unfathomable, unintelligible, vague), ‏لون قاتم, ‏قاتم (black, cloudy, deep, dim, dusky, gloomy, murky, overcast, sable), ‏غبش (dusk, penumbra, twilight), ‏عتمة (darkness, dimness, shade, sombreness), ‏عابس الوجه, ‏خبيث (bad, black-hearted, evil, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, rake, roue, sly, vicious, viperous, virulent, vulpine, wicked, wily), ‏ظلام (blackness, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, night, obscurity, sadness, shade), ‏شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, devil, diabolic, diabolical, evil, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, naughty, rascally, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, unholy, vicious, wicked), ‏داكن (blackish, deep, dingy, dirty, dusky, leaden, sad, swarthy). (various references)

Basque

ilundu (dark to be, night to be). (various references)

Bavarian

dung (bleak, dismal, dreary). (various references)

Blackfoot

siká'saokkoyi (dark bay horse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скришен (darkling), тъмнина (blackness, darkness, obscurity, shades, shadows, the opaque), тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, darkling, darksome, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, somber, sombre, sooty, unlit), таен (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, confidential, cryptic, darkling, esoteric, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, inside, mystic, occult, private, privy, recondite, secret, sensitive, sneaking, snug, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand), неясен (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, bleary, confused, crepuscular, doubtful, dreamy, dusk, fuzzy, hazy, illegible, inarticulate, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indistinct, intangible, involved, inward, loose, misty, muddy, muzzy, nebulous, obscure, pale, recondite, shadowy, soft, transcendental, ulterior, unclear, undecided, unformed, vague, vapory, vapoury, wan, woolly), непросветен (heathen, natural, unenlightened), намръщен (frowning, rugged, sulky), мургав (dusk, dusky, nigrescent, nut-brown, olive, swart, swarthy), мрак (darkness, gloom, mirk, murk, night, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness, shades, shadows, the opaque), жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, harsh, ill, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, outrageous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), потъмнял (dim, discolored, discoloured, dull, lacklustre, tarnished), печален (disconsolate, distressful, distressing, dolorous, drear, grave, grievous, heavyhearted, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, tearful, tristful, woeful), двусмислен (ambiguity, ambiguous, double, double meaning, double-barrelled, double-hearted, equivocal, oracular, two-edged, vague), див (barbarous, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, frenzied, harsh, heathen, lupine, natural, orgiastic, rough, savage, tameless, uncivilized, uncultivated, untamed, wild). (various references)

Catalan

fosc (dim). (various references)

Chinese 

黑暗 (darkly, darkness). (various references)

Czech

tmavý (black, darksome, deep, nubilous, shadowy, swarthy), tma (darkness, gloom, night). (various references)

Danish

mørk (bleak, dim, dismal, dreary). (various references)

Dutch

somber (bleak, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, miserable, mournful, sad, somber, sullen), donker (bleak, darkness, dim, dismal, dreary, murk, obscure). (various references)

Esperanto

malluma (dim), malhela (bleak, dismal, dreary). (various references)

Faeroese

myrkt rúm (dark-room, small room). (various references)

Farsi 

تیره کردن (Blur, Dim, Fog, Gloom, Mud, Obscure, Overcast, Shade, Tarnish), تیره (Black, Caliginous, Gloomy, Heavy, Ilk, Indistinct, Lurid, Muddy, Murky, Nebulous, Obscure, Overcast, Thick, Turbid), تاریک کردن (Gloom, Obscure, Overshadow), تاریک (Blind, Caliginous, Dim, Dusky, Gloomy, Lackluster, Somber). (various references)

Finnish

valoton, tummaverinen (brunette), tumma, synkkä (bleak, desolate, dreary, gloomy, moody, sullen), pimeys (darkness, obscurity), pimeä (obscure), hämärä (dim, dusk, dusky, hazy, obscure, the grey dawn, twilight). (various references)

French

sombre, obscur, foncé (darkened). (various references)

Frisian

donker (bleak, dismal, dreary), tsjuster (dim). (various references)

German

dunkel (abstruse, black, bleak, darkness, dim, dingy, dismal, dreamy, dreary, dubious, dusky, gloomy, grave, lightless, murky, obscure, obscurely, obscureness, obscurity, opaque, recondite, shadily, shady, somber, somberly, sombre, swarthily, swarthy, tenebrous, vague, vaguely), finster (black, blackly, dim, frowning, gauntly, gloomily, gloomy, glowering, gloweringly, grim, louring, loweringly, murkily, murky, obfuscatory, saturnine, shady, sinister, somber, somberly, sombre), dunkelheit (blackness, darkness, dimness, fog, gloom, gloominess, murk, obscureness, obscurity, swarthiness), düster (black, bleak, cheerless, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, dreary, dusky, forbidding, frowning, funereal, funereally, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, Gray, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, sepulcher, sinister, somber, somberly, sombre, sullen). (various references)

Greek 

σκοτάδι (darkness, night time, obscurity). (various references)

Hebrew 

שחור (black, blackness, ebony, nigritude), קודר (black, cheerless, dour, dun, gaunt, gloomy, gruff, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, somber, sullen, tenebrous), חושך (darkness, murk, obscurity), חום (fever, heat, temperature, warmth), חשוך (murky, tenebrous), אפל (black, dim, gloomy, leaden, obscure, somber), כהוי (dim), כהה (deep, dim, dull, faint, obscure). (various references)

Hungarian

sötét (black, black as night, collied, dark-skinned, dim, doldrums, dun, dusky, funereal, gloomy, gray, grey, grim, louring, loury, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, of evil omen, puke, saturnine, shady, somber, sombre, stygian, tenebrous). (various references)

Indonesian

menggabak (gloomy), kelam (dim (of eyesight), dull, obscure, overcast), gulita, gelap (black, murky, secret, unclear), buram (blueprint, dull, gloomy, not clear, plan, sketch, unregistered). (various references)

Irish

dorcha. (various references)

Italian

tenebroso (dim, gloomy, murky, somber, sombre), scuro (black, bleak, dim, dingy, dismal, dreary, dull, overcast, somber, sombre, swarthy), oscuro (black, dim, gloomy, humble, murky, obscure, somber, sombre), buio (black, bleak, darkness, dismal, dreary, gloom, gloominess, murkiness, night, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness), oscurità (background, blackness, darkness, dimness, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, murkiness, night, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, shade, somberness, sombreness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

暗い (gloomy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すみぞめ (dyed black, dying black), ダーク , くろっぽい (blackish), くろい (black), くらい (about, almost, as, at least, court order, crown, dignity, enough to, gloomy, grade, nobility, occupying a position, rank, rather, situation, throne), くろ (black), めいめい (christening, divine, each, individual, invisible, naming), めい (command, decree, destiny, life, niece), あんたんたる (gloomy), あんたん (depressing, gloomy, somber), あんぐ (feeblemindedness, imbecility), ゆうゆうたる (deep, quiet), やみ (black-marketeering, darkness, illegal, shady, the dark), みょう (command, decree, destiny, life, strange, unusual). (various references)

Korean 

어두운 (OBSCURE). (various references)

Manx

keeir (blackish, cud, darkish, darkly dull, dull grey, dusky, sable), grouw (dark-looking, dejected, dismal, forbidding, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grim, surly), froshagh (murky), dorraghey (crepuscular, dun, dusk, dusky, enigmatic, fade out, gloomy, obscure), doo (black, black headed, black-haired, bold, dirty, ink, inky, negroid, sable). (various references)

Maya

ee'-ho'che'en. (various references)

Mohawk

kanekwenhtarahòntsi (dark red). (various references)

Norwegian

mørk (dim). (various references)

Occitan

faire nuèch (night, to be dark). (various references)

Papiamen

skur (dim). (various references)

Pig Latin

arkday.(various references)

Portuguese

escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, darkling, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, inky, mirk, moonless, muddy, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart, umber). (various references)

Romanian

brun (black, Brown, dark-haired, dark-skinned), mocnit (dull, gloomy, reticent, smoldering, smouldering, taciturn), misterios (awsome, daedal, darkly, deep, enigmatical, enigmatically, hidden, mysterious, mysteriously, mystic, occult, secret, uncanny, unsearchable), incult (barbarous, illiberal, illiterate, unaccomplished, uncultivated, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered), ignorant (benighted, cipher, dunce, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, inexpert, innocent, know-nothing, nescient, rude, unknowing, unlearned), ignoranţã (ignorance, nescience), culoare închisã (darkness, duskiness), cu pãrul negru, închis (black, cagey, close, close-mouthed, coop, covered, deep, deeply, dun, involved, pent, red-hot, sad, shut, stuffy, sullen), cenuşiu-închis, neclar (blind, cloudy, confused, darkly, difficult, diffuse, dim, dull, feeble, foggy, gloomily, hazy, inarticulate, indistinct, inexplicit, lax, muddy, obscurely, vague, vaguely), beznã (gloom, midnight, night, obscurity), ascuns (abstruse, backstairs, blind, cagey, close, concealed, covert, cryptic, furtive, hidden, masked, mystic, occult, postern, privy, q.t., quiet, recondite, secluded, secret, secretive, self contained, sneaking, stealthy, sunken, ulterior, uncommunicative, underground, underhand, undiscovered), întuneric (blackness, darkness, murk, night, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, shadow, twilight), întunecos (darkish, dim, dingy, gloomy, murkily, murky, obscure, shadowy, twilight), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous), înnorat (clouded, cloudy), înnoptat (gloomy), înnegurat (gloomy, misty), cernit (black, blackened, clouded, cloudy, darkened, dim, dull, dusky, gloomy, sad, somber, sombre, sullen), oacheş (black, gipsy, Spectacled, swarthy), trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, downcast, drab, dreary, dull, dumpish, elegiac, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful), ticãlos (a bad egg, base, cad, canting, cur, dirty, felon, foul, heel, hound, impious, kite, knave, knavish, knavishly, low-minded, mean, meanly, miscreant, paltry, perverse, picaroon, rapscallion, rascal, rascally, recreant, reprobate, ruffian, scab, scabby, scamp, scoundrel, scurvy, serpentine, shabby, skunk, sneak, sneaking, vile, villain, villainous, wretch, wretched), tenebros (gloomy, shadowy, tenebrous), tainic (close, cover, covert, hidden, inmost, inner, innermost, inside, intimate, isolated, mysterious, mysteriously, mystic, obscure, private, privy, quiet, secret, stealthy), sumbru (black, cloudy, dismal, dreary, dull, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, overcast, shadowy, somber, sombre), searã (dew-fall, dusk, eve, even, evening, eventide, night, twilight, vesper), primitiv (crude, primal, primary, primeval, primitive, primitively, rude), posomorât (beetle, cheerless, dismal, dull, gloomily, gloomy, jaw-fallen, melancholy, mopish, overcast, somber, sombre), mohorât (bleak, blue, cheerless, dismal, downcast, dreary, dull, dun, gloomy, grave, Gray, grey, lowering, overcast, sad), obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, darksome, dim, dull, entangled, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unknown, unnoticed), neştiinţã (ignorance, nescience), noros (clouded, cloudy, gloomy), noptatic, neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, snuffy, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), neguros (brumous, foggy, gloomy, misty), negru (black, blackened, Brown, coon, dirtiness, dirty, foul, ghost writer, grimy, hidden, jim crow, negro, penny-a-liner, sable, sun-burnt, swarthy, tawny, wicked), negricios (blackish, dark-haired, darkish, dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy), necurat (accursed, cursed, devilish, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dubious, funny, shady, suspicious, unclean), umbrã (cloud, ghost, gloom, shade, shading, shadow), opac (dense, dull, mat, opaque). (various references)

Russian 

темный (black, blackish, blind, cimmerian, darksome, dun, gloomy, ignorant, lowering, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, sombre, sunless, tenebrous, unlit). (various references)

Scottish

dorcha (dim, dusky, obscure : an dorcha, the dark). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zlokoban (bodeful, disastrous, ill-omened, inauspicious, sinister), taman (dim, just, just right, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, narrow, near, opaque, tenebrous), tama (darkness, gloominess), tajanstven (arcane, eldritch, hidden, mysterious, occult, orphic, secretive), mrk (brown), mrak (darkness, mirk, murk, obscurity), mračan (bleak, darksome, dim, dusky, gloomy, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, obscure, somber, sombre, tenebrous), crn (black, inky, jet, negro, raven). (various references)

Spanish

oscuro (abstruse, cimmerian, darkling, darksome, deep, dim, dingy, dissolute, dusk, dusky, eery, gloomy, insignificant, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, pitchy, shadowy, twilight, vat), tenebroso (dismal, gloomy, loweringly, mirk, murk, murky, obfuscatory, tenebrous). (various references)

Sranan

dungru (dim). (various references)

Swahili

-enye giza (dim), enye giza (dim). (various references)

Swedish

mörk (darksome, dingy, dun, dusky, grave, murk, murky, obscure, sombre). (various references)

Tagalog

madilím (dim). (various references)

Turkish

koyu renk, karanlık (clouded, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), gölge (cloud, shade, shadow, silhoutte, simulacrum), bilgisizlik (darkness, ignorance, illiteracy, nescience, unawareness), belirsizlik (ambiguity, doubtfulness, dreaminess, dreariness, drift, dubiousness, equivocalness, fogginess, fuzziness, generality, gloom, haze, haziness, if, incalculability, indefiniteness, indistinctness, laxity, laxness, limbo, suspense, troubled waters, twilight world, twilight zone, uncertainty, vagueness), akşam (dew-fall, eve, evening, eventide, night, vesper, vespertine). (various references)

Turkmen 

garaсky (darkness, unlit). (various references)

Ukrainian

темрява (darkness, gloom, mirk, murk, night, nigritude, obscure, obscureness, obscurity, opaque), порочний (cammed, depraved, gallows, naughty, perverse, rampant, vicious, wicked), пітьма (night, obscureness, obscurity, opaque, sable, womb), безрадісний (cheerless, joyless), нечистий (adulterant, drossy, impure, unchaste, unclean), таємничість (mystique, occultness), темний (abstruse, backwoods, black, cimmerian, darkling, darksome, lowering, murk, murky, nightly, nigrescent, obscure, occult, opaque, shaded, smutty, somber, sombre), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous), темнота (darkness, obscureness, obscurity), сумний (afflictive, baleful, cheerless, comfortless, damp, deplorable, despondent, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, elegiac, elegiacal, grievous, heavy-hearted, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, maddening, melancholy, mournful, overcast, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, wailful, wan), тінь (ghost, shade, shadow, umber, umbra, umbrage), чорний (black, negro), робити темним (darken), секретність (privacy, privity, wraps), смуглявий (dusky), ставати темним, темний колір (darkness). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dốt nát (illiterate, letterless, unlearned, unread), lúc đêm tối, bóng tối (adumbration, blackness, darkness, duskiness, shadow), bi quan đen tối, chán nản (chop, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, despondingly, dispiritedly, down, down-hearted, ennuied, hatchet, heartsick, heavy, long, low-spirited, mopish, spirit, spleenful, spleenish, spleeny), chỗ tối, kín đáo (close, cryptic, cryptically, inconspicuous, private, rose, secret, shamefaced, undemonstrative), không ai hay biết gì, không cho ai biết điều gì buồn rầu, ám muội; ghê tởm, không rõ ràng (darkly, ill-defined, indefinite, indescribable, indistinct, loose, unprecise, woolly), u ám ngăm ngăm đen, mơ hồ (darkly, dubious, foggy, indefinable, intangible, problematic, problematical, undefined, vague), ngu dốt bí mật, nham hiểm (machiavellian), nhắm mắt nhảy liều, sự ngu dốt (darkness, ignorance, ignorantness), tối (dusky, fuscous, gravely, night, obscure, p.m., pip emma, post meridiem, shadowy), tối mò; mù mịt, tối tăm (darkly, dismal, fuliginous, gloomy, murky, obscure, recondite, sunless), không minh bạch tối tăm. (various references)

Welsh

tywyllwch (darkness), tywyll (abstruse, benighted, blind, obscure), cethin (fierce, ugly). (various references)

Yucatec

e'hoch'e'en (dim). (various references)

dara, kukku. (various references)

acerbus, ater, ater atra atrum, atra, atrer, atrer, atra, atrum, atriorum, caesarie, caesariem, caesaries, cæruleus, caligineus, caliginoso, caliginosus, caligosum, fusca, niger, nigra, nigrae, nigri, nigrum, obscura, obscurior, obscuris, obscuro, obscurum, obscurus, opacus, tenebricosus, tenebrosa, tenebrosam, tenebrosas, tenebrosi, tenebrosis, tenebroso, tenebrosum, tenebrosus. (various references)

sâmahe. (various references)

deorc, fealu. (various references)

obscur. (various references)

sombre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "dark": darked, darken, darkened, darkener, darkeners, darkening, darkens, darker, darkest, darking, darkish, darkle, darkled, darkles, darklier, darkliest, darkling, darkly, darkness, darknesses, darkroom, darkrooms, darks, darksome. (additional references)

Words containing "dark": baidarka, baidarkas, bedarken, bedarkened, bedarkening, bedarkens, bidarka, bidarkas, bidarkee, bidarkees, qindarka, qindarkas, semidarkness, semidarknesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dark" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: daar, Daarik, Dack, daek, D'afra, dagr, Dagri, daik, daki, dakt, Dalk, dar, dara, darb, darc, Darch, Darco, d'arco, Dard, Darf, darg, darh, darka, darke, darkl, Darku, Darl, darm, darp, darq, Darra, darri, daruk, darv, darw, dary, derik, derk, Derl, dero, derp, Derx, dgar, Dhar, Dhari, diok, Dirck, dirf, dirke, dirw, Dmark, doak, dorc, dorj, dorky, dorq, dpar, dra, draak, drac, draca, draci, Drack, dracl, drak, Draka, draky, durk, dwarm, gark, kark, tark, uark, Vark. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ark, dak, rad.

-2 letters: ad, ar, ka.

+1 letter: darks, drake, drank, raked.

+2 letters: arcked, barked, braked, carked, dacker, daiker, danker, darked, darken, darker, darkle, darkly, debark, dekare, demark, drakes, harked, larked, marked, narked, parked, racked, ranked, warked.

+3 letters: awkward, beraked, bidarka, charked, cracked, cranked, creaked, croaked, dackers, daikers, darkens, darkest, darking, darkish, darkled, darkles, daywork, debarks, dekares, demarks, dorhawk, franked, freaked, keycard, khaddar, kilorad, knarred, kneader, kraaled, mudlark, nakeder, pranked, rankled, rewaked, sharked, skyward, sparked, straked, tankard, tracked, traiked, troaked, unraked, workday, wracked, wreaked.