The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - darkadj.

1) unlit, unlighted, unilluminated, ill-lighted, ill-lit, sunless; black, Stygian, pitch-dark, inky, jet-black: We cowered in a recess in the dark cave. 2) dim, murky, tenebrous, shady, shadowy: I could scarcely see ahead of me in the dark forest. 3) gloomy, dismal, dreary, dull, drab, subfuscous, subfusc, bleak, cheerless, mournful, dour, pessimistic, sombre, doleful, joyless, grim, sad, melancholy, sorrowful: Why do you always look at the dark side of things? 4 evil, wicked, vile, base, foul, iniquitous, nefarious, black-hearted, villainous, sinister, satanic, devilish, hellish: Nostradamus predicted that dark forces would overrun the world. 5) murky, overcast, cloudy, threatening, black, dusky, louring or lowering; foggy, misty; US glowering: Another dark day on the moor and I thought I'd go mad. 6) mysterious, deep, profound, incomprehensible, enigmatic, puzzling, impenetrable, unfathomable, abstruse, recondite, arcane, obscure: She took her dark secret to the grave. 7) hidden, concealed, secret, occult, mystic(al) , cryptic: The true reason for his leaving was always kept dark in the family. 8) brunette; black, swarthy, brown; (sun) tanned, Old-fashioned swart: One is fair with dark hair, the other has dark skin. 9) ignorant, unenlightened, benighted: Our culture passed through a dark phase before the Renaissance. --n. 1) 0 night, night-time, nightfall: We waited till dark to make good our escape. 1) 1 darkness, blackness, gloom, gloominess, murk, murkiness: At fifty, isn't he a bit old to be afraid of the dark? 12 obscurity, ignorance: She was always kept in the dark about his true identity.