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Dark
adjective 1.Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black. "A dark day" , "Dark shadows" , "Dark as the inside of a black cat" Antonym: light. 2.(used of color) having a dark hue. "Dark glasses" , "Dark colors like wine red or navy blue" Antonym: light. 3.Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes). 4.Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable. Synonyms: black, sinister. "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" 6.Showing a brooding ill humor. Synonyms: dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen. "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" , "A sour temper" , "A sullen crowd" 7.Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture. Synonym: benighted. "Benighted ages of barbarism and superstition" , "The dark ages" , "A dark age in the history of education" 8.Marked by difficulty of style or expression. Synonym: obscure. "Those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure" 9.Causing dejection. Synonyms: blue, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry. "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" 11.Not giving performances; closed. noun 1.Absence of light or illumination. Synonym: darkness. Antonym: light. 4.The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside. Synonyms: night, nighttime. Antonym: day. 5.An unenlightened state. Synonym: darkness. "His lectures dispelled the darkness"
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