darkadjective
uk/dɑːk/us/dɑːrk/dark adjective (WITHOUT LIGHT)
A2 with little or no light:
A1 nearer to black than white in colour:
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- The sun's going down and it'll be dark soon.
- The room was so dark, I had to feel my way along the wall to the door.
- The flame above the oil well flared up into the dark sky.
- I had to grope my way up the dark stairs.
- She hated the cold dark days of winter.
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Darkness & becoming dark
- black
- black sth out
- blackness
- blackout
- darken
- deepen
- dingy
- draw
- draw in
- dull
- gloomy
- half-light
- inky
- matt
- moonless
- pitch-dark
- shady
- silhouette
- Stygian
- the gloaming
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dark adjective (SAD)
C1 [ before noun ] sad and without hope:
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- miserably
- moody
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- the doldrums
- wretched
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dark adjective (EVIL)
C1 evil or threatening:
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Morally wrong and evil
- abhorrent
- amoral
- anomie
- arch-villain
- be rotten to the core idiom
- canker
- darkly
- evil
- evildoer
- go to the bad idiom
- godless
- hanky-panky
- heinous
- scandalous
- seamy
- seedy
- shocking
- shockingly
- wicked
- wickedness
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dark adjective (SECRET)
UK secret or hidden:
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Secrecy and privacy
- anonymity
- anonymize
- anonymous
- backroom
- backstage
- counsel
- dissimulate
- dissimulation
- entre nous
- executive privilege
- furtive
- lip
- private
- privately
- privileged
- sanctum
- scent
- secrecy
- skeleton
- sweep
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Examples
- Driving through the total darkness was a slightly surreal experience.
- I could hear him blundering around in the darkness.
- Pupils contract in bright light, and dilate in darkness.
- Suddenly all the lights went out and the house was shrouded in darkness.
- I could just discern a figure in the darkness.
B2
Idiom(s)
darknoun
uk/dɑːk/us/dɑːrk/More examples
- He left very early and had to dress in the dark.
- Her eyes slowly adjusted to the dark.
- I found the right coin in the dark by touch.
- I'm terrified of the dark.
- We could hear her stumbling about/around the bedroom in the dark.
B1 the fact of there being no light somewhere:
B1 before/after the sun has gone down:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Darkness & becoming dark
- black
- black sth out
- blackness
- blackout
- darken
- deepen
- dingy
- draw
- draw in
- dull
- gloomy
- half-light
- inky
- matt
- moonless
- pitch-dark
- shady
- silhouette
- Stygian
- the gloaming
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