1. Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
   "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" 
2. (used of colour) having a dark hue
   "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colours like wine red or navy blue" 
3. Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
   "dark eyes" 
4. Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonourable
   "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"
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1. Absence of light or illumination
   - darkness 
2. Absence of moral or spiritual values
   - iniquity, wickedness, darkness 
3. An unilluminated area
   - darkness, shadow 
4. The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
   - night, nighttime 
5. An unenlightened state
   "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"
   - darkness

Derived forms: darker, darkest, darks

See also: Acheronian, Acherontic, aphotic, black, brunet [US], brunette, caliginous, cheerless, Cimmerian, concealed, crepuscular, darkened, darkening, darkish, darkling, darkly, darkness, depressing, dim, dusky, evil, gloomful [archaic], glooming [archaic], gloomy, ill-natured, inactive, incomprehensible, light, lightless, lightness, pitch-black, pitch-dark, semidark, Stygian, subdued, sulky, tenebrific, tenebrious, tenebrous, twilight, twilit, uncheerful, uncomprehensible, unenlightened, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit, value

Type of: condition, illumination, period, period of time, scene, status, time period, unenlightenment

Antonym: light

Part of: 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours

Encyclopedia: Dark

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