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English Dictionary: dark by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dark
adj
  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"
    Antonym(s): light
  2. (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue"
    Antonym(s): light, light-colored
  3. brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"
  4. stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "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"-Thomas Hardy
    Synonym(s): black, dark, sinister
  5. secret; "keep it dark"
  6. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "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"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
    Synonym(s): dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
  7. lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture; "this benighted country"; "benighted ages of barbarism and superstition"; "the dark ages"; "a dark age in the history of education"
    Synonym(s): benighted, dark
  8. marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"
    Synonym(s): dark, obscure
  9. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "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"
    Synonym(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
  10. having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples"
    Synonym(s): colored, coloured, dark, dark- skinned, non-white
  11. not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"
n
  1. absence of light or illumination
    Synonym(s): dark, darkness
    Antonym(s): light, lighting
  2. absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness"
    Synonym(s): iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark
  3. an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"
    Synonym(s): darkness, dark, shadow
  4. the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
    Synonym(s): night, nighttime, dark
    Antonym(s): day, daylight, daytime
  5. an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness"
    Synonym(s): dark, darkness
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dark \Dark\ (d[aum]rk), a. [OE. dark, derk, deork, AS. dearc,
      deorc; cf. Gael. & Ir. dorch, dorcha, dark, black, dusky.]
      1. Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not
            receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or
            partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not
            light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth;
            dark paint; a dark complexion.
  
                     O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
                     Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope
                     of day!                                             --Milton.
  
                     In the dark and silent grave.            --Sir W.
                                                                              Raleigh.
  
      2. Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through;
            obscure; mysterious; hidden.
  
                     The dark problems of existence.         --Shairp.
  
                     What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be
                     found more plain.                              --Hooker.
  
                     What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or
            intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
  
                     The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not
                     want light who taught the world to see. --Denhan.
  
                     The tenth century used to be reckoned by medi[91]val
                     historians as the darkest part of this intellectual
                     night.                                                --Hallam.
  
      4. Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked;
            atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
  
                     Left him at large to his own dark designs. --Milton.
  
      5. Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.
  
                     More dark and dark our woes.               --Shak.
  
                     A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a
                     dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
  
                     There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of
                     heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark
                     hour of adversity.                              --W. Irving.
  
      6. Deprived of sight; blind. [Obs.]
  
                     He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had
                     been for some years.                           --Evelyn.
  
      Note: Dark is sometimes used to qualify another adjective;
               as, dark blue, dark green, and sometimes it forms the
               first part of a compound; as, dark-haired, dark-eyed,
               dark-colored, dark-seated, dark-working.
  
      {A dark horse}, in racing or politics, a horse or a candidate
            whose chances of success are not known, and whose
            capabilities have not been made the subject of general
            comment or of wagers. [Colloq.]
  
      {Dark house}, {Dark room}, a house or room in which madmen
            were confined. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
      {Dark lantern}. See {Lantern}. -- The
  
      {Dark Ages}, a period of stagnation and obscurity in
            literature and art, lasting, according to Hallam, nearly
            1000 years, from about 500 to about 1500 A. D.. See
            {Middle Ages}, under {Middle}.
  
      {The Dark and Bloody Ground}, a phrase applied to the State
            of Kentucky, and said to be the significance of its name,
            in allusion to the frequent wars that were waged there
            between Indians.
  
      {The dark day}, a day (May 19, 1780) when a remarkable and
            unexplained darkness extended over all New England.
  
      {To keep dark}, to reveal nothing. [Low]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dark \Dark\, v. t.
      To darken to obscure. [Obs.] --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dark \Dark\, n.
      1. Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there
            is little or no light.
  
                     Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      2. The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
  
                     Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are
                     as muc[?] in the dark, and as void of knowledge, as
                     before.                                             --Locke.
  
      3. (Fine Arts) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting,
            engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well
            contrasted.
  
                     The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and
                     the darks to the lights.                     --Dryden.
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