Dark in colour; spec. characterized by or causing a lack of light; murky, gloomy; (of light) dim, obscure. Cf. brown, adj. 1a.

Dark. literal and figurative.

Dark (literal and figurative); = thester, adj.

Lacking light, or lustre; dark-hued, dusky, gloomy, dark. Obsolete. Chiefly poetic.

Dark; esp. (figurative) filled with moral or spiritual darkness.

Of colour, etc.: Dull, pale, wan, sombre. Obsolete exc. archaic.

Dark, gloomy, obscure.

Of a thing (also with personification): dark, dismal, gloomy.

Of a place: dark; gloomy. Also figurative.

Full of gloom; dark, shaded, obscure.

figurative. Obscure, gloomy.

Gloomy, dark, sombre. Obsolete.

Of the sky or weather: clouded over, characterized by a covering of cloud; dull, gloomy.

Dark, gloomy. Obsolete.

said of night. poetic.

Of inanimate natural objects and their attributes. Cf. sombre, adj. 1.

Of inanimate natural objects and their attributes: Characterized by the presence of gloom or shadow; depressingly dark, dusky, or obscure.

Somewhat gloomy.

Full of gloom or darkness; dark.

dark, sombre.