dark

1. adjective

1)

a dark night

Syn:

black, pitch-black, jet-black, inky; unlit, unilluminated; starless, moonless; dingy, gloomy, dusky, shadowy, shady; literary Stygian

Ant:

bright

2)

a dark secret

Syn:

mysterious, secret, hidden, concealed, veiled, covert, clandestine; enigmatic, arcane, esoteric, obscure, abstruse, impenetrable, incomprehensible, cryptic

3)

dark hair

Syn:

brunette, dark brown, chestnut, sable, jet-black, ebony

Ant:

blond/blonde

4)

dark skin

Syn:

swarthy, dusky, olive, brown, black, ebony; tanned, bronzed

Ant:

pale

5)

dark days

Syn:

tragic, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; dire, awful, terrible, dreadful, horrible, horrendous, atrocious, nightmarish, harrowing; wretched, woeful

Ant:

happy

6)

dark thoughts

Syn:

gloomy, dismal, pessimistic, negative, downbeat, bleak, grim, fatalistic, black, somber; despairing, despondent, hopeless, cheerless, melancholy, glum, grave, morose, mournful, doleful

Ant:

optimistic

7)

a dark look

Syn:

moody, brooding, sullen, dour, scowling, glowering, angry, forbidding, threatening, ominous

8)

dark deeds

Syn:

evil, wicked, sinful, immoral, bad, iniquitous, ungodly, unholy, base; vile, unspeakable, sinister, foul, monstrous, shocking, atrocious, abominable, hateful, despicable, odious, horrible, heinous, execrable, diabolical, fiendish, murderous, barbarous, black; sordid, degenerate, depraved; dishonorable, dishonest, unscrupulous; informal lowdown, dirty, crooked, shady

Ant:

virtuous, good

2. noun

1)

he's afraid of the dark

Syn:

darkness, blackness, gloom, murkiness, shadow, shade; dusk, twilight, gloaming

Ant:

light

2)

she went out after dark

Syn:

night, nighttime, darkness; nightfall, evening, twilight, sunset

Ant:

dawn, day

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- in the dark