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French
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noir
, obscurité
, sombre
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Dark
- (a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
- (v. t.) To darken to obscure.
- (a.) Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.
- (n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
- (a.) Deprived of sight; blind.
- (n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
- (a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
- (a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
- (a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
- (n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
Synonyms:
Benighted, Black, Blue, Colored, Darkness, Depressing, Disconsolate, Dismal, Dispiriting, Dour, Gloomy, Glowering, Glum, Grim, Iniquity, Moody, Morose, Night, Nighttime, Obscure, Saturnine, Shadow, Sinister, Sour, Sullen, Wickedness,
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• Darkly
- (adv.) With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
- (adv.) With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
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• Darksome
- (a.) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
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peplum, rate, direct, thoughts, wax, postscript, absinthe, upstream, nonplus, orientalist, braces, hard, pull back, feckless, cob, property, anger, milk of magnesia, exciter, rainy, pig, chord, dolt, casting vote, death, minx, much, rise, bombing, omit, abbreviation, sluggish, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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