Meaning of dark | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
2. dark (lacking light)
3. Extinguished.
4. dark (of a color, deep in hue)
5. Deprived of sight; blind.
6. obscure, unclear
7. Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
8. incomprehensible
9. Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
10. suspicious
11. Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
12. Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
13. Having racing capability not widely known.
14. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
15. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
16. Lacking progress in science or the arts.
17. Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
18. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
19. Off the air; not transmitting.

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Examples

“The room was too dark for reading.”

“It was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets […]”

“They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.”

“[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.”

“Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.”

“He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.”

“My sister’s hair is darker than mine.”

“Her skin grew dark with a suntan.”

“Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.”

“If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.”

“What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?”

“What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.”

“The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate, Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors; Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain, Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]”

“It is the remark of an ingenious writer, should a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a palace or a ship, view their separate and disjointed parts, and observe the pillars, doors, windows, cornices and turrets of the one, or the prow and stern, the ribs and masts, the ropes and shrouds, the sails and tackle of the other, he would be able to form but a very lame and dark idea of either of those excellent and useful inventions.”

“the dark problems of existence”

“The dark side of the moon.”

“dark money”

“Meantime we shall express our darker purpose”

““Clarence, can you lend me three thousand pounds on good security and keep it dark from Connie?””

“The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless [Duke of] St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.”

“a dark villain”

“a dark deed”

“Left him at large to his own dark designs.”

“The Great Depression was a dark time.”

“The film was a dark psychological thriller.”

“A deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.”

“There is, in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”

“The dark ages began after the collapse of the Roman Empire.”

“The Greek Dark Ages began after the Bronze Age collapse.”

“The age wherein he lived was dark, but he Could not want light who taught the world to see.”

“The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.”

“September 11, 2001, the day when four terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is often referred to as America’s dark day.”

“The ending of this book is rather dark.”

“This show is full of dark humor.”

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