- having very little or no light: The movie projector works much better in a dark room.
- radiating, admitting, or reflecting little light: A worm bin can be started in a 10-gallon plastic container in a dark color.
- approaching black in hue: They stained the wood floor a dark brown.
- not pale or fair in skin tone: My mother had a dark complexion, but my father's was lighter.
- brunette; brown or black: The man is described as 55 to 65 years old, with short gray hair and dark eyebrows.
- having brown or black hair: She's dark but her children are blond.
- (of food or drink, especially coffee beans) roasted, cooked, or toasted until near black in color: often used to describe the process itself: That brand of coffee is good, but I can't always find the dark roast.
- (of coffee) containing only a small amount of milk or cream: We'll have two large coffees—one black, one dark and sweet.
- evil; iniquitous; wicked: At the film's climax, the protagonist reveals a dark plot to assassinate the king.
- gloomy; cheerless; dismal: He served as a courier for the Polish resistance during the dark days of World War II.
- dealing with subject matter that is shocking, disturbing, or grim: This manga is a bit darker than the typical princess novel, as it has some scenes with gore.
- sullen; frowning: With a dark expression, he demanded to know what she was doing.
- hidden; secret.
- hard to understand; obscure: Among the fragments left us by this poet, many lines are dark in meaning.
- silent; reticent.
- destitute of knowledge or culture; unenlightened.
- (of a theater) offering no performances; closed: The theaters in this town are dark on Sundays.
- Phonetics.
- (of an l-sound) having back-vowel resonance; situated after a vowel in the same syllable.
- (of a speech sound) of dull quality; acoustically damped.
- the absence of light; darkness: I can't see well in the dark.
- night; nightfall: Please come home before dark.
- a color close to black, or something having such a color: Black and white photography has lots of darks.For best results, wash darks separately from whites.
- a place that lacks light: Imagine diving into the dark of the sea and seeing a face emerge from the watery shadows.
- to make dark; darken: The windows of the car had been darked, making it impossible to see inside.
- to grow dark; darken.
- go dark,
- to stop communicating, transmitting, or broadcasting: Thousands of websites went dark for a day to demonstrate that the bill would ruin the internet as we know it.I've tried to reach out, but he's gone dark and there's no contact.
- to shut down or stop operating; close, temporarily or permanently: The area is so depressed that more than half the restaurants in this county have gone dark in the past five years.
- in the dark,
- in ignorance; uninformed: He was in the dark about their plans for the evening.
- in secrecy; concealed; obscure.
- to keep as a secret; conceal: They kept their political activities dark.
- having little or no light
- (of a colour) reflecting or transmitting little light
- (of complexion, hair colour, etc) not fair or blond; swarthy; brunette
- (in combination)
- gloomy or dismal
- sinister; evil
- sullen or angry
- ignorant or unenlightened
- secret or mysterious
- denoting an (l) pronounced with a velar articulation giving back vowel resonance. In English, l is usually dark when final or preconsonantal
- (of a company) to remove itself from the register of major exchanges while continuing to trade
- absence of light; darkness
- night or nightfall
- a dark place, patch, or shadow
- a state of ignorance (esp in the phrase in the dark)
- an archaic word for darken
