单词 | dark |
释义 | dark /dahrk/, adj., darker, darkest, n. , v. adj. 1. having very little or no light: a dark room. 2. radiating, admitting, or reflecting little light: a dark color. 3. approaching black in hue: a dark brown. 4. not pale or fair; swarthy: a dark complexion. 5. brunette; dark-colored: dark eyebrows. 6. having brunette hair: She's dark but her children are blond. 7. (of coffee) containing only a small amount of milk or cream. 8. gloomy; cheerless; dismal: the dark days of World War II. 9. sullen; frowning: a dark expression. 10. evil; iniquitous; wicked: a dark plot. 11. destitute of knowledge or culture; unenlightened. 12. hard to understand; obscure. 13. hidden; secret. 14. silent; reticent. 15. (of a theater) offering no performances; closed: The theaters in this town are dark on Sundays. 16. Phonet. a. (of an l-sound) having back-vowel resonance; situated after a vowel in the same syllable. Cf. clear (def. 24a). b. (of a speech sound) of dull quality; acoustically damped. 17. keep dark, to keep as a secret; conceal: They kept their political activities dark. n. 18. the absence of light; darkness: I can't see well in the dark. 19. night; nightfall: Please come home before dark. 20. a dark place. 21. a dark color. 22. in the dark, a. in ignorance; uninformed: He was in the dark about their plans for the evening. b. in secrecy; concealed; obscure. v.t. 23. to make dark; darken. v.i. 24. Obs. to grow dark; darken. [bef. 1000; (adj.) ME derk, OE deorc; (n. and v.) ME, deriv. of the adj.; cf. MHG terken to darken, hide] Syn. 1. DARK, DIM, OBSCURE, GLOOMY, MURKY refer to absence or insufficiency of light. DARK implies a more or less complete absence of light: a dark night. DIM implies faintness of light or indistinctness of form (resulting from the lack of light or from imperfect vision): a dim outline. OBSCURE implies dimness that may arise also from factors that interfere with light or vision: obscure because of haze. GLOOMY means cloudy, ill-lighted, dusky: a gloomy hall. MURKY implies a thick or misty darkness: murky water. 4. dusky, black. 12. recondite, abstruse. Ant. 1. lighted. 2. bright. 8. cheerful. 9. pleasant. 12. clear. |
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