| dark | | |
| n. (state) | 1. dark, darkness | absence of light or illumination. |
| ~ illumination | the degree of visibility of your environment. |
| ~ night | darkness.; "it vanished into the night" |
| ~ lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness, black, blackness | total absence of light.; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" |
| ~ brownout, dimout, blackout | darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft). |
| ~ semidarkness | partial darkness. |
| n. (state) | 2. dark, darkness, iniquity, wickedness | absence of moral or spiritual values.; "the powers of darkness" |
| ~ condition, status | a state at a particular time.; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" |
| ~ foulness | disgusting wickedness and immorality.; "he understood the foulness of sin"; "his display of foulness deserved severe punishment"; "mouths which speak such foulness must be cleansed" |
| n. (location) | 3. dark, darkness, shadow | an unilluminated area.; "he moved off into the darkness" |
| ~ scene | the place where some action occurs.; "the police returned to the scene of the crime" |
| n. (time) | 4. dark, night, nighttime | the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside. |
| ~ period, period of time, time period | an amount of time.; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" |
| ~ 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours | time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" |
| ~ weeknight | any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday. |
| ~ evening | the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way.; "an evening at the opera" |
| ~ late-night hour | the latter part of night. |
| ~ midnight | 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night.; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight" |
| ~ small hours | the hours just after midnight. |
| ~ lights-out | a prescribed bedtime. |
| ~ wedding night | the night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together. |
| n. (cognition) | 5. dark, darkness | an unenlightened state.; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" |
| ~ unenlightenment | a lack of understanding. |
| adj. | 6. dark | 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" |
| ~ acheronian, acherontic, stygian | dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades.; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue" |
| ~ aphotic | lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight.; "the aphotic depths of the sea where no photosynthesis occurs" |
| ~ pitch-black, pitch-dark, black | extremely dark.; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" |
| ~ caliginous | dark and misty and gloomy. |
| ~ cimmerian | intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness.; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt" |
| ~ crepuscular | like twilight; dim.; "the evening's crepuscular charm" |
| ~ darkened | become or made dark by lack of light.; "a darkened house"; "the darkened theater" |
| ~ darkening | becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over.; "the darkening sky" |
| ~ darkling | (poetic) occurring in the dark or night.; "a darkling journey" |
| ~ darkling | uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure.; "a darkling glance"; "secret operatives and darkling conspiracies" |
| ~ dim, subdued | lacking in light; not bright or harsh.; "a dim light beside the bed"; "subdued lights and soft music" |
| ~ dusky, twilight, twilit | lighted by or as if by twilight.; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river" |
| ~ gloomful, glooming, gloomy, sulky | depressingly dark.; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic" |
| ~ unilluminated, lightless, unlighted, unlit | without illumination.; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets" |
| ~ semidark | partially devoid of light or brightness.; "semidark room" |
| ~ tenebrific, tenebrious, tenebrous | dark and gloomy.; "a tenebrous cave" |
| adj. | 7. dark | (used of color) having a dark hue.; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue" |
| ~ black | being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light.; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" |
| ~ darkish | slightly dark.; "darkish red" |
| adj. | 8. dark | brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes).; "dark eyes" |
| ~ brunet, brunette | marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes.; "a brunette beauty" |
| adj. | 9. black, dark, sinister | 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" |
| ~ evil | morally bad or wrong.; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" |
| adj. | 10. dark | secret.; "keep it dark" |
| ~ concealed | hidden on any grounds for any motive.; "a concealed weapon"; "a concealed compartment in his briefcase" |
| adj. | 11. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen | 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"; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" |
| ~ ill-natured | having an irritable and unpleasant disposition. |
| adj. | 12. benighted, dark | 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" |
| ~ unenlightened | not enlightened; ignorant.; "the devices by which unenlightened men preserved the unjust social order" |
| adj. | 13. dark, obscure | 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" |
| ~ uncomprehensible, incomprehensible | difficult to understand.; "the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible" |
| adj. | 14. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry | 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" |
| ~ cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
| adj. | 15. colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, non-white | having skin rich in melanin pigments.; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "dark-skinned peoples" |
| ~ black | of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization" |
| adj. | 16. dark | not giving performances; closed.; "the theater is dark on Mondays" |
| ~ inactive | lacking activity; lying idle or unused.; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" |
| negro | | |
| n. (person) | 1. black, black person, blackamoor, negro, negroid | a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa). |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ africa | the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean. |
| ~ person of color, person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person. |
| ~ negress | a Black woman or girl. |
| ~ black race, negro race, negroid race | a dark-skinned race. |
| ~ black man | a man who is Black. |
| ~ black woman | a woman who is Black. |
| ~ colored, colored person | a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive. |
| ~ darkey, darkie, darky | (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people. |
| ~ jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, coon, spade | (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person.; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" |
| ~ tom, uncle tom | (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites. |
| ~ picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny | (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child. |
| adj. | 2. negro | relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair. |
| ~ black | of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization" |
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