Englishdark
adjective
1 a dark night:
black, pitch black, pitch dark, inky, jet black, unlit, unlighted, unilluminated, ill-lit, poorly lit;
starless, moonless, dim, dingy, gloomy, dusky, indistinct, shadowy, shady;
leaden, overcast, sunless;
literary crepuscular, tenebrous;
rare Stygian, Cimmerian, Tartarean, caliginous.
▷antonyms bright.
2 keep it dark | a dark secret:
mysterious, secret, hidden, concealed, veiled, unrevealed, covert, clandestine;
enigmatic, arcane, esoteric, obscure, abstruse, recondite, recherché, inscrutable, impenetrable, opaque, incomprehensible, cryptic;
Military black.
3 dark hair:
brunette, dark brown, auburn, tawny, copper-colored, coppery, chestnut, chestnut-colored, jet black, sable, ebony;
dark-haired.
▷antonyms blond.
4 dark skin:
swarthy, sallow, olive, dusky, black, ebony;
tanned, bronzed, suntanned, sunburned;
dark-skinned.
▷antonyms pale.
5 the dark days of the war:
tragic, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, ruinous, devastating;
dire, ghastly, awful, unfortunate, dreadful, horrible, terrible, horrific, hideous, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, gruesome, grisly, monstrous, nightmarish, heinous, harrowing;
wretched, woeful;
literary direful.
▷antonyms happy.
6 my mind is full of dark thoughts:
gloomy, dismal, pessimistic, negative, defeatist, downbeat, gloom-ridden, cynical, bleak, grim, fatalistic, black, somber, drab, dreary;
despairing, despondent, depressed, dejected, demoralized, hopeless, cheerless, joyless, melancholy, glum, lugubrious, Eeyorish, grave, funereal, morose, mournful, doleful, suspicious, distrustful, doubting, alarmist.
▷antonyms optimistic.
7 Matthew flashed a dark look at her:
moody, brooding, sullen, dour, glum, morose, sulky, frowning, scowling, glowering, angry, forbidding, threatening, ominous.
▷antonyms kindly.
8 so many dark deeds had been committed | a dark secret:
evil, wicked, sinful, immoral, wrong, morally wrong, wrongful, bad, iniquitous;
ungodly, unholy, irreligious, unrighteous, sacrilegious, profane, blasphemous, impious, godless, base, mean, vile;
shameful, discreditable, unspeakable, foul, monstrous, shocking, outrageous, atrocious, abominable, reprehensible, hateful, detestable, despicable, odious, contemptible, horrible, heinous, execrable, diabolical, diabolic, fiendish, vicious, murderous, barbarous, rotten, perverted, reprobate, sordid, degenerate, depraved, dissolute, dishonorable, dishonest, unscrupulous, unprincipled;
informal crooked, bent, warped, lowdown, stinking, dirty, shady;
Law malfeasant;
rare dastardly, peccable, egregious, flagitious.
▷antonyms good, virtuous.
noun
1 he's afraid of the dark:
darkness, blackness, absence of light, gloom, gloominess, dimness, dullness, murk, murkiness, shadowiness, shadow, shade, shadiness, dusk, twilight, gloaming;
rare tenebrosity.
▷antonyms light.