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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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