Main entry: dark, darkness
Definition: absence of light or illumination
Main entry: night, nighttime, dark
Definition: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Antonyms: day, daylight, daytime
Definition: the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
Main entry: dark
Definition: devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
Usage: sitting in a dark corner; a dark day; dark shadows; dark as the inside of a black cat
Antonyms: light
Definition: characterized by or emitting light
Antonyms: white
Definition: (board games) the lighter pieces
Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
Antonyms: white
Definition: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
Antonyms: white
Definition: being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
Definition: set afire or burning
Main entry: dark
Definition: (used of color) having a dark hue
Usage: dark green; dark glasses; dark colors like wine red or navy blue
Antonyms: light, light-colored
Definition: (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
Main entry: black, sinister, dark
Definition: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
Usage: 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
Main entry: colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white
Definition: having skin rich in melanin pigments
Usage: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; dark-skinned peoples
Antonyms: white
Definition: (board games) the lighter pieces
Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
Antonyms: white
Definition: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
Antonyms: white
Definition: being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
Main entry: dark
Definition: brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
Usage: dark eyes
Antonyms: light-haired, blond, blonde
Definition: being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes
Main entry: dark
Definition: not giving performances; closed
Usage: the theater is dark on Mondays
Antonyms: active
Definition: characterized by energetic activity
Antonyms: active
Definition: engaged in full-time work
Antonyms: active
Definition: full of activity or engaged in continuous activity
Antonyms: active
Definition: tending to become more severe or wider in scope
Antonyms: active
Definition: exerting influence or producing a change or effect
Main entry: gloomy, grim, sorry, dark, drab, drear, dreary, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, blue
Definition: causing dejection
Usage: 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
Antonyms: cheerful
Definition: being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits
Main entry: dark, obscure
Definition: marked by difficulty of style or expression
Usage: much that was dark is now quite clear to me; those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure
Antonyms: comprehendible, comprehensible
Definition: capable of being comprehended or understood
Main entry: dark, benighted
Definition: lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
Usage: this benighted country; benighted ages of barbarism and superstition; the dark ages; a dark age in the history of education
Antonyms: enlightened
Definition: having knowledge and spiritual insight
Main entry: dark, dour, glowering, glum, saturnine, sour, sullen, moody, morose
Definition: showing a brooding ill humor
Usage: 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
Antonyms: good-natured
Definition: having an easygoing and cheerful disposition
Main entry: dark
Definition: secret
Usage: keep it dark
Antonyms: unconcealed
Definition: not concealed or hidden