Definition: an unenlightened state
Usage: he was in the dark concerning their intentions; his lectures dispelled the darkness
Similar words: unenlightenment
Definition: a lack of understanding
Synonyms: shadow, dark, darkness
Definition: an unilluminated area
Usage: he moved off into the darkness
Similar words: scene
Definition: the place where some action occurs
Usage: the police returned to the scene of the crime
Definition: absence of light or illumination
Similar words: illumination
Definition: the degree of visibility of your environment
Synonyms: iniquity, wickedness, dark, darkness
Definition: absence of moral or spiritual values
Usage: the powers of darkness
Similar words: condition, status
Definition: a state at a particular time
Usage: a condition (or state) of disrepair; the current status of the arms negotiations
Synonyms: night, nighttime, dark
Definition: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Similar words: time period, period, period of time
Definition: an amount of time
Usage: a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period
Synonyms: dark
Definition: not giving performances; closed
Usage: the theater is dark on Mondays
Similar words: inactive
Definition: lacking activity; lying idle or unused
Usage: an inactive mine; inactive accounts; inactive machinery
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: black
Definition: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
Usage: a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization- Martin Luther King Jr.
Synonyms: dark
Definition: brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
Usage: dark eyes
Similar words: brunet, brunette
Definition: marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
Usage: a brunette beauty
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian
Definition: dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades
Usage: in the depths of an Acheronian forest; upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue-Wordsworth
Similar words: aphotic
Definition: lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight
Usage: the aphotic depths of the sea where no photosynthesis occurs
Similar words: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark
Definition: extremely dark
Usage: a black moonless night; through the pitch-black woods; it was pitch-dark in the cellar
Similar words: caliginous
Definition: dark and misty and gloomy
Similar words: Cimmerian
Definition: intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness
Usage: the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt-Norman Douglas
Similar words: crepuscular
Definition: like twilight; dim
Usage: the evening's crepuscular charm
Similar words: darkened
Definition: become or made dark by lack of light
Usage: a darkened house; the darkened theater
Similar words: darkening
Definition: becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over
Usage: the darkening sky
Similar words: darkling
Definition: (poetic) occurring in the dark or night
Usage: a darkling journey
Similar words: darkling
Definition: uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure
Usage: a darkling glance; secret operatives and darkling conspiracies-Archibald MacLeish
Definition: lacking in light; not bright or harsh
Usage: a dim light beside the bed; subdued lights and soft music
Similar words: twilight, twilit, dusky
Definition: lighted by or as if by twilight
Usage: The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn-Henry Fielding; the twilight glow of the sky; a boat on a twilit river
Similar words: sulky, gloomful, glooming, gloomy
Definition: depressingly dark
Usage: the gloomy forest; the glooming interior of an old inn; `gloomful' is archaic
Similar words: unilluminated, unlighted, unlit, lightless
Definition: without illumination
Usage: came up the lightless stairs; the unilluminated side of Mars; through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets
Similar words: semidark
Definition: partially devoid of light or brightness
Usage: semidark room
Similar words: tenebrific, tenebrious, tenebrous
Definition: dark and gloomy
Usage: a tenebrous cave
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: cheerless, depressing, uncheerful
Definition: causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
Usage: the economic outlook is depressing; something cheerless about the room; a moody and uncheerful person; an uncheerful place
Synonyms: dark
Definition: (used of color) having a dark hue
Usage: dark green; dark glasses; dark colors like wine red or navy blue
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
Similar words: incomprehensible, uncomprehensible
Definition: difficult to understand
Usage: the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible- A. Einstein
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
Similar words: unenlightened
Definition: not enlightened; ignorant
Usage: the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: evil
Definition: morally bad or wrong
Usage: evil purposes; an evil influence; evil deeds
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: ill-natured
Definition: having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
Synonyms: dark
Definition: secret
Usage: keep it dark
Similar words: concealed
Definition: hidden on any grounds for any motive
Usage: a concealed weapon; a concealed compartment in his briefcase