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Definition dark in British English

dark adjective

adjective
/dɑː(r)k/
Example

a dark and stormy night

Example

When Maggie woke up, it was still dark.

Example

By this time it was ten o'clock and completely dark.

Example

When they left, it was already starting to get dark (=become dark at the end of a day).

Example

The room went dark and the cinema screen flickered into life.

Synonyms and related words
darkness shade blackness
2

black, or almost black, in colour

Example

He was dressed in a dark suit with a white shirt.

Example

There were dark patches on the walls where water had soaked through.

Example

She glanced up at the dark clouds above the cliffs.

Synonyms and related words
alabaster amber amethyst
2.1

strong and not pale in colour

Example

a dark blue jacket

Synonyms and related words
ablaze a riot of something bleached
2.2

dark hair, eyes, or skin are brown or black in colour

Example

He was tanned and had dark curly hair.

Example

an attractive dark-haired nurse

Example

He looked up at her, his dark eyes strangely bright.

Synonyms and related words
a platinum blonde auburn blonde
2.3

if a white person is described as being dark, they have brown or black hair and sometimes skin that is not light in colour

Example

a tall dark man

Synonyms and related words
a high colour albino (as) white as a sheet
Example

I always suspected there was a darker side to his character.

4

a dark time is one in which people feel frightened, unhappy, and without hope

Example

during the darkest days of the war

Example

This was the President's darkest hour.

Synonyms and related words
sad unhappy depressing frightening scary alarming
5

a dark look or remark is angry and threatening

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absent appealing beatific acid acrid allusive
6

dark thoughts are sad because you believe that something bad is going to happen

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the glass is half full (empty) hopeless gloomy
7

a dark secret or mystery is kept well hidden, especially because people would not approve if they knew about it

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secret private personal
8

a dark place is distant and mysterious because very little information is known about it

Example

in some dark corner of his mind

Synonyms and related words
secret private personal
9

if a theatre is dark, there are no performances there during a particular time

Synonyms and related words
acting amateur dramatics dark
10

to stop communicating with someone

Example

They would see sources go dark that were previously productive.

11

if a theatre goes dark, it stops putting on shows temporarily, due to lack of money or some kind of crisis

Example

All Washington theatres went dark in the wake of the suicide crash on the Pentagon.

Definition dark in British English

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