Definition for Dark:

• Destitute of light; wholly or partially black; gloomy; disheartening; obscure; not easily understood: mysterious; unenlightened; without spiritual light; wicked; blind; uncertain; not fair in complexion.

Synonyms for Dark:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • dark.
  •angry, upset (adjective)
  • threatening,
  • sullen,
  • frowning,
  • scowling,
  • dour,
  • sulky,
  • glum,
  • forbidding,
  • glowering.
  •benighted (adjective)
  • un-taught,
  • un-cultured,
  • un civilized,
  • un-schooled,
  • un-cultivated,
  • un cultured,
  • un taught,
  • un schooled,
  • un-learned,
  • un educated,
  • un-educated,
  • un-civilized,
  • un cultivated.
  •black (adjective)
  • black,
  • ebony,
  • jet,
  • charcoal,
  • midnight.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • hopeless,
  • un-promising,
  • more unpromising,
  • most unpromising,
  • drearer,
  • more disheartening,
  • dis heartening,
  • most disheartening,
  • gloomy,
  • drearest,
  • un promising,
  • dis-heartening.
  •blind (adjective)
  • without egress,
  • in darkness,
  • leading nowhere,
  • unseeing,
  • typhlotic,
  • closed at one end,
  • unsighted,
  • destitute of vision,
  • amaurotic,
  • Visionless,
  • blind as a bat,
  • undiscerning,
  • without exit,
  • dead-end.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • un-comfortable,
  • mopey,
  • de pressed,
  • mopiest,
  • woebegone,
  • in dumps,
  • more drearisome,
  • jarring,
  • in the dumps,
  • most drearisome,
  • drab,
  • draggier,
  • de-solate,
  • mopier,
  • draggiest,
  • de-pressed,
  • most dejecting,
  • un comfortable,
  • more dejecting,
  • de solate.
  •closed (adjective)
  • out order,
  • out business,
  • gone fishing,
  • most folded,
  • Padlocked,
  • most padlocked,
  • more padlocked,
  • not open,
  • more folded.
  •cloudy (adjective)
  • more nubilous,
  • more nontransparent,
  • more nontranslucent,
  • most blurred,
  • nontransparent,
  • most nubilous,
  • most emulsified,
  • more blurred,
  • in definite,
  • more emulsified,
  • most nontranslucent,
  • emulsified,
  • in-definite,
  • most nontransparent,
  • non translucent,
  • mushy,
  • non-translucent,
  • non transparent,
  • mucky.
  •cryptic (adjective)
  • un-informative,
  • more delphian,
  • in-comprehensible,
  • most uninformative,
  • un-clearer,
  • in-explicable,
  • un clearest,
  • un-clear,
  • un-fathomable,
  • more delphic,
  • un fathomable,
  • most delphic,
  • in comprehensible,
  • more uninformative,
  • un-clearest,
  • puzzling,
  • most delphian,
  • un clear,
  • un informative,
  • un clearer,
  • in explicable.
  •dark (adjective)
  • lightless,
  • shaded,
  • shady,
  • silhouetted,
  • dreary,
  • darkened,
  • sooty,
  • somber.
  •deep (adjective)
  • extreme,
  • bass,
  • full-toned,
  • baritone,
  • low-toned.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • bleak.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • hard to solve,
  • unaccommodating,
  • fractious,
  • hard to please,
  • paradoxical,
  • irritable,
  • tangled,
  • oafish,
  • hard to explain,
  • meandering,
  • unamenable,
  • bearish,
  • involved.
  •dim (adjective)
  • poorly lit,
  • fainter,
  • mater,
  • misty.
  •dingy (adjective)
  • most smirched,
  • more smirched,
  • be dimmed,
  • most discolored,
  • more discolored,
  • brokendown,
  • more bedimmed,
  • dis-colored,
  • most darkish,
  • dis colored,
  • most bedimmed,
  • more darkish,
  • be-dimmed.
  •disconsolate (adjective)
  • most tornup,
  • more crushed,
  • more torn up,
  • most torn up,
  • de stroyed,
  • in pits,
  • most hurting,
  • more tornup,
  • more torn-up,
  • dis tressed,
  • most ripped,
  • dis-tressed,
  • in consolable,
  • grief stricken,
  • in-consolable,
  • more ripped,
  • most crushed,
  • de-stroyed,
  • most torn-up,
  • doleful,
  • tornup,
  • more hurting.
  •dismal (adjective)
  • un-happy,
  • un happier,
  • inauspicious,
  • un-fortunate,
  • un fortunate,
  • de-pressing,
  • in auspicious,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • un happy,
  • dis agreeable,
  • un happiest,
  • in-auspicious,
  • de pressing.
  •dull (adjective)
  • hazy,
  • matte,
  • toned-down,
  • dun,
  • subfusc.
  •dusky (adjective)
  • swartest,
  • more adusk,
  • more crepuscular,
  • most dark complexioned,
  • darkcomplexioned,
  • most adusk,
  • most darkcomplexioned,
  • dark complexioned,
  • most brunette,
  • most twilit,
  • swart,
  • more twilight,
  • more darkcomplexioned,
  • most crepuscular,
  • more twilit,
  • more dark-complexioned,
  • most twilight,
  • swarter,
  • most dark-complexioned,
  • more dark complexioned.
  •enigmatic/enigmatical (adjective)
  • most stumping,
  • more stumping,
  • sibylline,
  • most stickling,
  • more stickling,
  • in decipherable,
  • in-scrutable,
  • in-decipherable,
  • most sphinxlike,
  • in scrutable,
  • most enigmatic,
  • more sphinxlike,
  • teasing.
  •evil (adjective)
  • iniquitous,
  • corrupt,
  • immoral.
  •evil, satanic (adjective)
  • vile,
  • damnable,
  • bad,
  • infamous,
  • infernal,
  • nefarious,
  • atrocious,
  • foul,
  • sinful,
  • hellish,
  • horrible.
  •foggy (adjective)
  • zerozero,
  • smaziest,
  • pea soupy,
  • more peasoupy,
  • most pea soupy,
  • more zerozero,
  • most peasoupy,
  • more pea soupy,
  • peasoupy,
  • most zero zero,
  • most pea-soupy,
  • most zerozero,
  • smazier,
  • more pea-soupy,
  • more zero zero,
  • most zero-zero,
  • zero zero,
  • more zero-zero.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • dirgelike,
  • funereal.
  •grim, hopeless (adjective)
  • mournful.
  •hard (adjective)
  • hard as nails,
  • unsparing,
  • harder,
  • stern,
  • coldblooded,
  • hardboiled.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • sodden.
  •hidden (adjective)
  • with-held,
  • more hermetical,
  • withheld,
  • un-disclosed,
  • with held,
  • most sequestered,
  • out view,
  • under-ground,
  • more unrevealed,
  • un revealed,
  • in discernible,
  • more sequestered,
  • most eclipsed,
  • in visible,
  • most unrevealed,
  • in-discernible,
  • most imperceivable,
  • under-cover,
  • most shrouded,
  • more shrouded,
  • un-revealed,
  • un disclosed,
  • in-visible,
  • un-detected,
  • under cover,
  • Imperceivable,
  • un-exposed,
  • more eclipsed,
  • most hermetical,
  • un exposed,
  • in dark,
  • hermetic,
  • masked,
  • more imperceivable,
  • un detected.
  •hidden, secret (adjective)
  • not known,
  • complicated,
  • occult,
  • esoteric,
  • anagogic,
  • mystical,
  • abstruse,
  • mystifying,
  • cabalistic,
  • intricate,
  • mystic,
  • delphian,
  • arcane,
  • knotty.
  •hush-hush (adjective)
  • more sub rosa,
  • most under the table,
  • more under the table,
  • more under-the-table,
  • hush hush,
  • more subrosa,
  • most sub-rosa,
  • most subrosa,
  • more closet,
  • most closet,
  • hushhush,
  • subrosa,
  • most sub rosa,
  • most under-the-table,
  • more sub-rosa.
  •ignorant (adjective)
  • ignorant,
  • unlettered,
  • unread,
  • uncultivated.
  •overcast (adjective)
  • clouded over,
  • not fair.
  •pessimistic (adjective)
  • dis-trustful,
  • re-signed,
  • more foreboding,
  • most foreboding,
  • mis anthropic,
  • more fatalistic,
  • fore boding,
  • most fatalistic,
  • dis trustful,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • re signed,
  • fore-boding.
  •recondite (adjective)
  • little-known,
  • Acroamatic.
  •sable (adjective)
  • jettiest,
  • jetty,
  • jettier.
  •sad (adjective)
  • most heart rending,
  • most discomposing,
  • more saddening,
  • most heart-rending,
  • dis-composing,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • most saddening,
  • more heart rending,
  • heart rending,
  • more heart-rending,
  • tearjerking,
  • sad,
  • more discomposing,
  • un satisfactory,
  • up setting,
  • dis composing,
  • tear jerking,
  • up-setting,
  • tearful.
  •seamy (adjective)
  • seamy.
  •secret (adjective)
  • under wraps,
  • hush-hush,
  • cloak and dagger,
  • conspiratorial,
  • backdoor.
  •sedative (adjective)
  • slumberous.
  •shadowy (adjective)
  • un-substantial,
  • more umbral,
  • most adumbral,
  • more adumbral,
  • un substantial,
  • most umbral.
  •slumberous (adjective)
  • Husher.
  •sober (adjective)
  • no nonsense,
  • low key,
  • unexcited,
  • disciplined,
  • forgoing,
  • unimpassioned,
  • Clear-headed.
  •somber (adjective)
  • most sourpuss,
  • more dragged,
  • more sourpuss,
  • more depressive,
  • most dragged,
  • most depressive.
  •sooty (adjective)
  • sootcovered,
  • soot-covered,
  • most blackened,
  • most soot covered,
  • most soot-covered,
  • most sootcovered,
  • more blackened,
  • more soot covered,
  • soot covered,
  • more soot-covered,
  • more sootcovered.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • cross,
  • mean,
  • cantankerous,
  • ungenial,
  • cynical,
  • noncooperative,
  • fretful,
  • obstinate,
  • irascible,
  • surly,
  • broody,
  • hostile,
  • crabby,
  • petulant,
  • melancholy,
  • unsociable,
  • uncooperative,
  • beetle-browed,
  • long-faced,
  • dejected,
  • unfriendly,
  • contrary,
  • grouchy,
  • Moping,
  • grumpy,
  • malevolent,
  • dissociable.
  •supernatural (adjective)
  • un-earthliest,
  • un earthly,
  • more superordinary,
  • supra-natural,
  • most phantom,
  • more phantom,
  • super human,
  • un comprehensible,
  • most supermundane,
  • most superordinary,
  • super-mundane,
  • more supranatural,
  • fairiest,
  • super natural,
  • meta-physical,
  • super ordinary,
  • supra natural,
  • meta physical,
  • un-earthly,
  • un-comprehensible,
  • para normal,
  • un earthlier,
  • un-earthlier,
  • super-natural,
  • fairier,
  • most supranatural,
  • para-normal,
  • more supermundane,
  • un earthliest,
  • superhuman,
  • super-human,
  • super mundane,
  • super-ordinary.
  •superphysical (adjective)
  • extra sensory,
  • extra-sensory,
  • more extrasensory,
  • super-physical,
  • extra mundane,
  • extra-mundane,
  • super physical,
  • most extrasensory.
  •supersensible (adjective)
  • super-sensible,
  • Supersensible,
  • super sensible.
  •swarthy (adjective)
  • most darkskinned,
  • most dark skinned,
  • most dark-hued,
  • more darkskinned,
  • more dark hued,
  • most dark hued,
  • most darkhued,
  • most dark-skinned,
  • dark skinned,
  • dark hued,
  • more dark skinned,
  • more dark-skinned,
  • more darkhued,
  • darkskinned,
  • more dark-hued,
  • darkhued.
  •tenebrific (adjective)
  • down in the dumps,
  • down in mouth,
  • mirthless,
  • in low spirits,
  • chapfallen,
  • Mopish,
  • down in dumps.
  •turbid (adjective)
  • most sedimentary,
  • more sedimentary,
  • most polluted,
  • more polluted.
  •ugly (adjective)
  • most scowling,
  • fellest,
  • more scowling.
  •ulterior (adjective)
  • Undivulged,
  • implied,
  • Obscured.
  •umbrageous (adjective)
  • out the sun,
  • out of sun,
  • boskiest,
  • most umbrous,
  • most shadowed,
  • more shadowed,
  • boskier,
  • shadowed,
  • more umbrous,
  • out sun.
  •unknown (adjective)
  • such and such,
  • unexplained,
  • so and so,
  • unrecognized,
  • Incog,
  • Unrenowned,
  • unidentified,
  • little known,
  • such-and-such,
  • uncelebrated,
  • Unascertained,
  • unperceived,
  • so-and-so,
  • Unapprehended.
  •unseeing (adjective)
  • un-seeing,
  • un seeing.
  •unseen (adjective)
  • not in sight,
  • curtained,
  • unobserved.
  •vague (adjective)
  • mis-understood,
  • un-settled,
  • un sure,
  • most unexplicit,
  • more unexplicit,
  • un settled,
  • more generalized,
  • un-specified,
  • un-sure,
  • un explicit,
  • more amphibological,
  • un-explicit,
  • mis understood,
  • unspecified,
  • most amphibological,
  • un specified,
  • most generalized.

• n.

  •
  • go up,
  • in,
  • on,
  • method acting,
  • dramatic,
  • acting,
  • rep,
  • opposite.
  •
  • painful,
  • terrible,
  • tragic,
  • upsetting,
  • heartbreaking,
  • foreboding,
  • unpropitious,
  • unhappy.
  •
  • baby blue,
  • amber,
  • alabaster,
  • beige,
  • indian,
  • negro,
  • african,
  • amethyst,
  • tan,
  • avocado,
  • azure.
  •
  • amoral,
  • gross,
  • sordid,
  • deviant,
  • perverted.
  •
  • anonymous,
  • private,
  • uncertain,
  • personal,
  • strange.
  •
  • negative,
  • colors,
  • despairing,
  • broken.
  •
  • Flaxen,
  • bistered,
  • blond,
  • auburn,
  • Black-a-vised,
  • fair-haired.
  •
  • Complexioned,
  • Complected,
  • bronzed,
  • warn,
  • albino,
  • Lowery,
  • color,
  • bloodless,
  • brown.
  •
  • hope.
  •
  • obscurity,
  • murkiness,
  • obscureness,
  • dimness.
  •acheronian (noun)
  • acheronian.
  •aphotic (noun)
  • aphotic.
  •benighted (noun)
  • benighted.
  •blackness (noun)
  • total darkness.
  •brunet (noun)
  • brunet.
  •brunette (noun)
  • brunette.
  •caliginous (noun)
  • caliginous.
  •cimmerian (noun)
  • cimmerian.
  •colored (noun)
  • colored.
  •coloured (noun)
  • coloured.
  •concealed (noun)
  • concealed.
  •concealment (noun)
  • secrecy.
  •dark (noun)
  • wicked,
  • inactive,
  • depressing,
  • uncheerful,
  • unlit,
  • saturnine,
  • sour,
  • unlighted,
  • lightproof,
  • tenebrous,
  • gloomful,
  • iniquity,
  • moody,
  • glooming,
  • sinister,
  • wickedness,
  • nighttime,
  • unilluminated,
  • shadow,
  • light-tight,
  • unenlightened,
  • tenebrific,
  • grim,
  • twilight,
  • dispiriting,
  • darkling,
  • uncomprehensible,
  • ill-natured,
  • morose,
  • tenebrious,
  • evil,
  • blue,
  • darkening,
  • incomprehensible,
  • subdued.
  •darkness (noun)
  • pitch darkness,
  • Smokiness,
  • blackness,
  • calignosity,
  • crepuscule,
  • gloom,
  • shade,
  • murk,
  • the dark,
  • lightlessness,
  • brownouts,
  • Tenebrosity,
  • brownout.
  •dusk (noun)
  • dimmets,
  • dimdays.
  •evening (noun)
  • late afternoons,
  • de clines,
  • de-cline,
  • de cline,
  • early blacks,
  • de-clines.
  •huggermugger (noun)
  • huggermuggeries.
  •ignorance; mystery (noun)
  • concealment,
  • inscrutability,
  • thickness,
  • denseness,
  • seclusion.
  •pitch black (noun)
  • pitch black.
  •place, time without light (noun)
  • opacity,
  • semidarkness,
  • Caliginosity,
  • dead of night,
  • nightfall,
  • duskiness,
  • witching hour,
  • shadows.
  •secrecy (noun)
  • confidentialities,
  • huggermugger,
  • stealth,
  • secretiveness,
  • confidentiality,
  • Secretness,
  • surreptitiousness.
  •shadow (noun)
  • penumbrae,
  • adumbrations.

• v.

  •dodge (verb)
  • putting move on,
  • moves to the side,
  • move the side,
  • gotten out of,
  • shortcircuiting,
  • circumlocuted,
  • getting out of,
  • moving the side,
  • circumlocuting,
  • moved to side,
  • moves to side,
  • gives slip,
  • gat out of,
  • give slip,
  • moving side,
  • shortcircuited,
  • moves side,
  • short-circuits,
  • puts move on,
  • put move on,
  • move side,
  • gave the slip,
  • giving slip,
  • gat around,
  • moved the side,
  • shortcircuit,
  • skips out on,
  • juking,
  • moving to side,
  • moving to the side,
  • puts the move on,
  • Short-circuited,
  • juked,
  • circumlocutes,
  • gave slip,
  • skipping out on,
  • shortcircuits,
  • moved to the side,
  • gets around,
  • tergiversing,
  • gotten around,
  • got around,
  • tergiverses,
  • short circuited,
  • skipped out on,
  • short circuiting,
  • moved side,
  • putting the move on,
  • gives the slip,
  • moves the side,
  • giving the slip,
  • turns aside,
  • fended off,
  • tergiversed,
  • gets out of.

• Other synonyms:

  •Acherontic
  • acherontic.
  •
  • absent,
  • joyless,
  • stock,
  • desolate,
  • platinum.
  •
  • fair.
  •
  • color-coded,
  • brash,
  • chintzy,
  • bold.
  •Stygian
  • stygian.
  •avoid
  • dodge.
  •cloudy
  • sunless,
  • overcast.
  •galaxy
  • nebula.
  •shadowy
  • pitchy.
  •tanned
  • tawny.
  •torch
  • lantern.

Paraphrases for Dark:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    dark-coloured, black.
  • Proper noun, singular
    black.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    blackness, black.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    stark, dire, unclear, red, gray, bad, hidden, prejudicial, evil.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    regards, night.
  • Verb, past tense
    announced, Followed, Sank.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    rules.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    gloomy, bleak, darkened, obscure, murky, shadowy, grim, sinister, somber, shady, dismal, nightfall, blacked-out, arcane, undeclared, opaque, deep, nocturnal, dusky, dull, miserable, depressing, creepy, dim, nighttime, ominous, sombre.
  • Proper noun, singular
    darth, dusky, sombre.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    nightfall, obscurity, ignorance, gloom, dim, nighttime, indiscriminate, sombre.

Antonyms for Dark:

• adj.

  • all
    light.
  • evil, satanic
    just, honest.
  • grim, hopeless
    nice.
  • lack of light
    pleased, hopeful, encouraging, clean, clear, evident, visible, cheerful, sparkling, shining, good, apparent, smart, distinct, manifest, illuminated, intelligent, sunny, brilliant, vivid, plain, vivacious, luminous, moral, bright, lucid, radiant, joyful, happy.
  • Other antonyms:
    endorsed, venerable, esteemed, firm, squeaky-clean, blunt, comforting, unerring, crystalline, certain, dazzling, heartwarming, blatant, high, righteous, transparent, cordial, frank, aglitter, honorable, ashen, pure, right, authorized, expert, high-minded, cultivated, sanctioned, sunshiny, ashy, intellectual, appreciable, strong, outspoken, creditable, moonlit, glossy, ethical, determined, commendable, Relucent, fathomable, accessible, experienced, highbrow, inoffensive, communicative, comprehendible, sure, open, guiltless, upstanding, noble, immaculate, legal, seemly, licensed, schooled, virtuous, gleaming, starlit, pallid, reputable, enlightened, pasty, self-explanatory, incorruptible, worthy, acquainted, exact, sublime, correct, chaste, proper, blameless, permitted, decent, spotless, defined, knowledgeable, law-abiding, principled, elevated, sophisticated, legible, uncorrupted, unobjectionable, beamy, well-informed, resplendent, direct, innocent, peaked, polymath, approved, lightsome, blonde, friendly, respected, tactless, exemplary, lighthearted, intelligible, lofty, upright, aware, lily-white, agleam, sallow, out front, self-evident, trained, moony, encouraged, irreproachable, wan, wholesome, knowable, supported, active, buoyant, decorous, permissible, unconcealed, light-haired, perfect, candid, highlighted, peaky, cultured, scrupulous, legitimate, understandable, good-natured.

• n.

  • ignorance; mystery
    revelation.
  • place, time without light
    understanding, daylight, sensibility, enlightening, cognizance, morning, brightness, sense, daybreak, illumination, lightness, daytime, day, intelligence.

Dark Sentence Examples:

• And take your time, I'll talk to you till dark, if need be.

• It was gettin' dark.

Homophones for Dark:

• deodorise, deodourise, dye-works, drosky, durres, dray horse, diuresis, diarrhoeic, doric, diarchy, dirge, do drugs, dressy, darkey, dragee, dairy cow, Darius I, diarrheic, dirac, dark ages, Dr. Seuss, dreck, dryas, dirk, data track, derrick, dregs, drake, dyarchy, duress, drawers, do work, darke, dreg, derris, dressage, dork, dross, Druse, dirca, Darius Iii, dr. j, deodorize, dieresis, doorcase, durga, deterge, droshky, dietrich, drug, dry ice, drag, dress, dry wash, diaeresis, durazzo, drowse, darkish, darky, drogue, drowsy, darkie, Druze, doris, drayhorse, data hierarchy, draco.

Hypernym for Dark:

• n.

  • state
    blackout, brownout, blackness, night, pitch blackness, semidarkness, black, dimout, total darkness, foulness, lightlessness.

Hyponym for Dark:

• n.

  • state
    status, condition, illumination.