Dark

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Mục lục 1 Adjective 1.1 having very little or no light 1.2 radiating, admitting, or reflecting little light 1.3 approaching black in hue 1.4 not pale or fair; swarthy 1.5 brunette; dark-colored 1.6 having brunette hair 1.7 (of coffee) containing only a small amount of milk or cream. 1.8 gloomy; cheerless; dismal 1.9 sullen; frowning 1.10 evil; iniquitous; wicked 1.11 destitute of knowledge or culture; unenlightened. 1.12 hard to understand; obscure. 1.13 hidden; secret. 1.14 silent; reticent. 1.15 (of a theater) offering no performances; closed 1.16 Phonetics . 2 Noun 2.1 the absence of light; darkness 2.2 night; nightfall 2.3 a dark place. 2.4 a dark color. 3 Verb (used with object) 3.1 to make dark; darken. 4 Verb (used without object) 4.1 Obsolete . to grow dark; darken. ? 5 Idioms 5.1 in the dark 5.2 keep dark 6 Antonyms 6.1 adjective 6.2 noun 7 Synonyms 7.1 adjective 7.2 noun

Adjective

having very little or no light

a dark room.

radiating, admitting, or reflecting little light

a dark color.

approaching black in hue

a dark brown.

not pale or fair; swarthy

a dark complexion.

brunette; dark-colored

dark eyebrows.

having brunette hair

She's dark but her children are blond.

(of coffee) containing only a small amount of milk or cream.

gloomy; cheerless; dismal

the dark days of World War II.

sullen; frowning

a dark expression.

evil; iniquitous; wicked

a dark plot.

destitute of knowledge or culture; unenlightened.

hard to understand; obscure.

hidden; secret.

silent; reticent.

(of a theater) offering no performances; closed

The theaters in this town are dark on Sundays.

Phonetics .

(of an l- sound) having back-vowel resonance; situated after a vowel in the same syllable. Compare clear ( def. 24a ) .

(of a speech sound) of dull quality; acoustically damped.

Noun

the absence of light; darkness

I can't see well in the dark.

night; nightfall

Please come home before dark.

a dark place.

a dark color.

Verb (used with object)

to make dark; darken.

Verb (used without object)

Obsolete . to grow dark; darken. ?

Idioms

in the dark

in ignorance; uninformed

He was in the dark about their plans for the evening.

in secrecy; concealed; obscure.

keep dark

to keep as a secret; conceal

They kept their political activities dark.

Antonyms

adjective

bright , brilliant , illuminated , light , lucid , luminous , radiant , shining , visible , vivid , apparent , distinct , evident , manifest , plain , encouraging , hopeful , good , moral , cheerful , happy , pleased

noun

brightness , day , daylight , daytime , illumination , light , lightness , morning , cognizance , enlightening , intelligence , sense , sensibility , understanding

Synonyms

adjective

aphotic , atramentous , black , blackish , caliginous , cimmerian , clouded , cloudy , crepuscular , darkened , dim , dingy , drab , dull , dun , dusk , dusky , faint , foggy , gloomy , grimy , ill-lighted , indistinct , inky , lightless , lurid , misty , murky , nebulous , obfuscous , obscure , opaque , overcast , pitch-black , pitch-dark , pitchy , rayless , shaded , shadowy , shady , somber , sooty , stygian , sunless , tenebrous , unlighted , unlit , vague , adumbral , bistered , brunet , brunette , dark-complexioned , dark-skinned , ebon , ebony , sable , swart , swarthy , tan , abstruse , anagogic , arcane , cabalistic , complicated , concealed , cryptic , deep , delphian , enigmatic , esoteric , intricate , knotty , mysterious , mystic , mystical , mystifying , not known , occult , puzzling , recondite , bleak , cheerless , dismal , doleful , foreboding , joyless , morbid , morose , mournful , ominous , sinister , unpropitious , atrocious , bad , corrupt , damnable , foul , hellish , horrible , immoral , infamous , infernal , nefarious , sinful , vile , wicked , benighted , uncultivated , unenlightened , unlettered , unread , dour , forbidding , frowning , glowering , glum , scowling , sulky , sullen , threatening , black-a-vised , blue , desolate , dreary , tenebrific , lowery , pessimistic , adiaphanous , enigmatical , funereal , ignorant , incomprehensible , inexplicable , iniquitous , lowering , mirky , murk , photochromic , recondite abstruse , sombre , subfusc , unilluminated

noun

caliginosity , darkness , dead of night , dimness , dusk , duskiness , evening , gloom , midnight , murk , murkiness , night , nightfall , nighttime , obscurity , opacity , semidarkness , shade , shadows , twilight , witching hour , concealment , denseness , inscrutability , seclusion , secrecy , thickness , obscureness , abstruse , aphotic , black , brown , brunet , cloudy , dim , dingy , dismal , dreary , dusky , ebon , forbidding , fuliginosity , gloomy , grim , hidden , inky , lowering , murky , mysterious , mystifying , nigrescence , nigritude , obscure , occult , ominous , opaque , overcast , penumbra , secretive , shady , sinister , sombre , stygian , sunless , swarthy , tenebrosity , umbra , umbrage , unlit