dark

UK /dɑːk/ · US /dɑɹk/

Etymology From Middle English derk, from Old English deorc, from Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“dim, dull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“dull, dirty”).

Synonyms

32 terms

blear, caliginous, cimmerian, crepuscular, dark, darksome, darkling, dim, dimpsy, dingy, dull, dusky, fuliginous, gloomy, infernal, leaden, lightless, mirksome, murky, murksome, obscure, shady, somber, sombrous, stygian, sunless, swarthy, tenebrose, tenebrous, twilightish, umbrageous, unilluminated

Antonyms

bright, glowing, light, lit, luminous, luminiferous, radiant, shining, sunny

Derived terms

182 terms

0-dark-hundred, 0-dark-thirty, Alexander's dark band, all cats are grey in the dark, antidark, bedark, dark academia, dark academic, dark-activity, dark-adapted, dark advertising, dark age, dark ages, Dark Ages, Dark Alfs, dark alternative scene, dark ambient, dark and stormy, dark art, dark as Egypt, dark as pitch, dark as the inside of a cow, dark blue, dark-blue snakeweed, dark blue snakeweed, Dark Brandon, dark bread, dark brown, dark cabaret, dark chocolate, dark cloud, dark comedy, Dark Continent, darkcore, Dark Corner, dark corn syrup, dark crimson underwing, dark culture, dark current, dark cutter, darkcutter, darkcutting, dark data, dark earth, dark elf, dark empath, dark energy, Dark Enlightenment, dark-eyed, dark-eyed junco, dark factory, darkfall, dark fantasy, dark fiber, dark fibre, darkfic, darkfield, dark field, dark figure, dark fleet, dark flight, dark flow, dark fluid, dark forest hypothesis, dark fuck prince, darkful, dark fungus, dark glasses, dark gopher frog, dark green fritillary, dark-haired, dark-hearted, dark hearted, darkhorse, dark-horse, dark horse, dark house, dark humor, dark humour, dark hydrogen, darkie, darkey, darky, darkish, dark jungle glory, dark kitchen, dark l, dark-lantern, dark lantern, dark-lanthorn, dark lanthorn, dark life, dark light, darkling, darkly, Dark MAGA, dark magic, darkmans, dark market, dark matter, dark meat, dark mode, dark money, dark moon, dark nebula, dark-necked tailorbird, darknet, dark night, dark night of the soul, darkon, dark o’clock, dark pattern, dark pool, dark post, darkpsy, dark reaction, dark red, dark ride, dark romance, darkroom, dark satanic mill, dark sector, dark shyshark, darkside, dark-side, dark side, dark side of the Force, darkskin, dark-skinned, dark sleeper, dark slide, dark social, dark soliton, darksome, dark space, dark spinach, dark star, dark store, dark territory, dark thirty, dark tourism, dark tourist, darktown, dark trading, dark traffic, dark triad, dark up, dark vowel, darkward, darkwards, darkwave, dark wave, Dark Web, dark web, dark woke, dark world, dark-zilla, Darth, Darth Vader, endark, European dark bee, every dark cloud has a silver lining, Faraday dark space, go dark, grimdark, Joan's as good as my lady in the dark, look on the dark side, look on the dark side of it, non-baryonic dark matter, o-dark-thirty, oh-dark-thirty, oh dark hundred, pitch-dark, pitch dark, the dark side of the moon, semidark, stab in the dark, take a shot in the dark, the darkest hour is just before the dawn, warm dark matter, wine-dark, zero dark thirty

Related terms

darken, darkling, darkness, Egyptian darkness, dark colour

Hyponyms

dark as Egypt