English-Thai Dictionary
dark
ADJ คล้ำ เข้ม (สี )แก่ black kam
dark
ADJ ชั่วร้าย ชั่วช้า ป่าเถื่อน evil wicked chu-rai
dark
ADJ มืด มืดมิด มืดมน มืดครึ้ม dim shadowy murky med
dark
ADJ ลึกลับ คลุมเครือ เร้นลับ ซ่อนเร้น ไม่ชัด เจน mysterious hidden luek-lab
dark
ADJ สลดใจ ไม่ เบิกบาน หมดหวัง ใจคอ เหี่ยวแห้ง หดหู่ ซึมเซา หม่นหมอง gloomy hopeless sa-lod-jai
dark
N ความมืด ความมืด มิด ที่ มืด มุมมืด เงามืด การ ปราศจาก แสง darkness dimness kwam-mud
dark
N ช่วงเวลา ดึก กลางคืน ตอนดึก เวลา ดึก เวลา ค่ำ nightfall nighttime chung-we-la-duk
dark blue
ADJ สีน้ำเงิน เข้ม สีน้ำเงิน แก่ se-nam-ngen-kem
dark horse
IDM ม้ามืด ผู้เข้าแข่งขัน ที่ ไม่มีใคร คาดว่า จะ ชนะ ได้ ma-mued
dark horse
N ม้ามืด ผู้ชนะ ที่ ไม่ ถูก คาด หวังว่า จะ ชนะ ma-mued
darken
VI ทำให้ มืด ทำให้ คล้ำ ทำให้ มืดมน ทำให้ คลุมเครือ blacken tam-hai-mud
darken
VI ทำให้ ไม่ มีความสุข ทำให้ เศร้า depress tham-hai-mai-me-kwam-suk
darken
VT ทำให้ มืด ทำให้ คล้ำ ทำให้ มืดมน ทำให้ คลุมเครือ blacken tam-hai-mud
darken
VT ทำให้ ไม่ มีความสุข ทำให้ เศร้า depress tham-hai-mai-me-kwam-suk
darkie
N มืด mued
darkish
ADJ ค่อนข้าง มืด ค่อนข้าง ดำ ค่อนข้าง คล้ำ kon-kang-mud
darkle
VI กลายเป็น มืด klai-pen-mued
darkling
ADV กำลัง มืด kam-lang-mued
darkly
ADV คลุม เค ลือ kloom-kluea
darkness
N ความมืด kwam-mued
darkroom
N ห้องมืด สำหรับ ล้างรูป ถ่าย ไอ้ มืด (เป็น คำต้องห้าม hong-mued-sam-rab-lang-rub-tai
darksome
A สลัว sa-lua
darky
N นิโกร คนผิวดำ darkey darkie ni-ko
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
DARK
a. 1. Destitute of light; obscure. A dark atmosphere is one which prevents vision.
2. Wholly or partially black; having the quality opposite to white; as a dark color or substance.
3. Gloomy; disheartening; having unfavorable prospects; as a dark time in political affairs.
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Irving.
4. Obscure; not easily understood or explained; as a dark passage in an author; a dark saying.
5. Mysterious; as, the ways of Providence are often dark to human reason.
6. Not enlightened with knowledge; destitute of learning and science; rude; ignorant; as a dark age.
7. Not vivid; partially black. Leviticus 13:6, -
8. Blind.
9. Gloomy; not cheerful; as a dark temper.
1 . Obscure; concealed; secret; not understood; as a dark design.
11. Unclean; foul.
12. Opake. But dark and opake are not synonymous. Chalk is opake, but not dark.
13. Keeping designs concealed.
The dark unrelenting Tiberius. Gibbon.
DARK
n. 1. Darkness; obscurity; the absence of light. We say we can hear in the dark.
Shall the wonders be known in the dark? Psalm 88:12.
2. Obscurity; secrecy; a state unknown; as, things done in the dark.
3. Obscurity; a state of ignorance; as, we are all in the dark.
DARK
v.t. 1. To make dark; to deprive of light; as, close the shutters and darken the room.
2. To obscure; to cloud.
His confidence seldom darkened his foresight. Bacon.
3. To make black.
The locusts darkened the land. Exodus 1 :14, 15.
4. To make dim; to deprive of vision.
Let their eyes be darkened. Romans 11:1 .
5. To render gloomy; as, all joy is darkened. Isaiah 24:11.
6. To deprive of intellectual vision; to render ignorant or stupid.
Their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1:21.
Having the understanding darkened. Ephesians 4:18.
7. To obscure; to perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Job 38:2.
8. To render less white or clear; to tan; as, a burning sun darkens the complexion.
9. To sully; to make foul.
DARKEN
v.i.To grow dark or darker; also, to grow less white or clear.
DARKENED
pp. Deprived of light; obscured; rendered dim; made black; made ignorant.
DARKENING
ppr. Depriving of light; obscuring; making black or less white or clear; clouding.
DARK-HOUSE
n.An old word for a madhouse.
DARKISH
a.Dusky; somewhat dark.
DARKLING
a.Being in the dark, or without light; a poetical word.
DARKLY
adv. Obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly; with imperfect light, clearness or knowledge. They learn only what tradition has darkly conveyed to them. Anon.
DARKNESS
n. 1. Absence of light.
And darkness was on the face of the deep. Genesis 1:2.
2. Obscurity; want of clearness or perspicuity; that quality or state which renders any thing difficult to be understood; as the darkness of counsels.
3. A state of being intellectually clouded; ignorance.
Men loved darkness rather than light. John 3:19.
4. A private place; secrecy; privacy.
What I tell in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matthew 1 :27.
5. Infernal gloom; hell; as utter darkness. Matthew 22:13.
6. Great trouble and distress; calamities; perplexities.
A day of clouds and thick darkness. Joel 2:2; Isaiah 8:22.
7. Empire of Satan.
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness. Colossians 1:13.
8. Opakeness.
Land of darkness, the grave. Job 1 :21, 22.
DARKSOME
a.Dark; gloomy; obscure; as a darksome house; a darksome cloud.
DARK-WORKING
a.Working in darkness or in secrecy.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
DARK
Dark, a. Etym: [OE. dark, derk, deork, AS. dearc, deorc; cf. Gael. &Ir. dorch, dorcha, dark, black, dusky. ]
1. 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. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark and silent grave. Sir W. Raleigh.
2. Not clear to the understanding; not easily The dark problems of existence. Shairp. What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain. Hooker. What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word Shak.
3. Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant. The age wherin he lived was dark, but he Cobld not want light who taught the world oto see. Denhan.The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediæval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night. Hallam.
4. Evincing blaxk or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed. Left him at large to his own dark designs. Milton.
5. Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious. More dark and dark our woes. Shak. A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature. Macaulay. There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. W. Irving.
6. Deprived of sight; blind. [Obs. ] He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years. Evelyn.
Note: Dark is sometimes used to qualify another adjective; as, dark blue, dark green, and sometimes it forms the first part of a compound; as, dark-haired, dark-eyed, dark-colored, dark-seated, dark-working. A dark horse, in racing or politics, a horse or a candidate whose chances of success are not known, and whose capabilities have not been made the subject of general comment or of wagers. [Colloq. ] -- Dark house, Dark room, a house or room in which madmen were confined. [Obs. ] Shak. -- Dark lantern. See Lantern. -- The Dark Ages, a period of stagnation and obscurity in literature and art, lasting, according to Hallam, nearly 1 years, from about 5 to about 15 A. D.. See Middle Ages, under Middle. -- The Dark and Bloody Ground, a phrase applied to the State of Kentucky, and said to be the significance of its name, in allusion to the frequent wars that were waged there between Indians. -- The dark day, a day (May 19, 178 ) when a remarkable and unexplained darkness extended over all New England. -- To keep dark, to reveal nothing. [Low ]
DARK
DARK Dark, n.
1. Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light. Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out. Shak.
2. The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy. Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark. Shak. Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as mucdark, and as void of knowledge, as before. Locke.
3. (Fine Arts )
Defn: A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted. The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights. Dryden.
DARK
DARK Dark, v. t.
Defn: To darken to obscure. [Obs. ] Milton.
DARKEN
Dark "en, v. t. [Imp. & p. p. Darkened; p. pr. & vb. n. Darkening. ]Etym: [AS. deorcian. See Dark, a.]
1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They [locusts ] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15.So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
2. To render dim; to deprive of vision. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Rom. xi. 1 .
3. To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible. Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darkenhis foresight. Bacon. Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge Job. xxxviii. 2.
4. To cast a gloom upon. With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not The mirth of the feast. Shak.
5. To make foul; to sully; to tarnish. I must not think there are Evils enough to darken all his goodness. Shak.
DARKEN
DARKEN Dark "en, v. i.
Defn: To grow or darker.
DARKENER
DARKENER Dark "en *er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, darkens.
DARKENING
DARKENING Dark "en *ing, n.
Defn: Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Wright.
DARKFUL
DARKFUL Dark "ful, a.
Defn: Full of darkness. [Obs. ]
DARKISH
DARKISH Dark "ish, a.
Defn: Somewhat dark; dusky.
DARKLE
Dar "kle, v. i. Etym: [Freq. of dark. ]
Defn: To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.
DARKLING
Dark "ling, adv. Etym: [Dark + the adverbial suffix -ling. ]
Defn: In the dark. [Poetic ] So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.
DARKLING
DARKLING Dark "ling, p. pr. & a.
1. Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray.
2. Dark; gloomy. "The darkling precipice. " Moore.
DARKLY
DARKLY Dark "ly, adv.
1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron.
2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne.
DARKNESS
DARKNESS Dark "ness, n.
1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2.
2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27.
3. A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity. Men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John. iii. 19.Pursue these sons of darkness: drive them out From all heaven's bounds. Milton.
4. Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
5. A state of distress or trouble. A day of clouds and of thick darkness. Joel. ii. 2. Prince of darkness, the Devil; Satan. "In the power of the Prince of darkness. " Locke.
Syn. -- Darkness, Dimness, Obscurity, Gloom. Darkness arises from a total, and dimness from a partial, want of light. A thing is obscure when so overclouded or covered as not to be easily perceived. As tha shade or obscurity increases, it deepens into gloom. What is dark is hidden from view; what is obscure is difficult to perceive or penetrate; the eye becomes dim with age; an impending storm fills the atmosphere with gloom. When taken figuratively, these words have a like use; as, the darkness of ignorance; dimness of discernment; obscurity of reasoning; gloom of superstition.
DARKSOME
DARKSOME Dark "some, a.
Defn: Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. [Poetic ] He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.
DARKY
DARKY Dark "y, n.
Defn: A negro. [Sleng ]
New American Oxford Dictionary
dark
dark |därk dɑrk | ▶adjective 1 with little or no light: it's too dark to see much. • hidden from knowledge; mysterious: a dark secret. • archaic ignorant; unenlightened: he is dark on certain points of scripture. • (of a theater ) closed; not in use: on Tuesdays he'd wait tables because the theater was dark. 2 (of a color or object ) not reflecting much light; approaching black in shade: dark green. • (of someone's skin, hair, or eyes ) brown or black in color. • (of a person ) having such skin, hair, or eyes: both my father and I are very dark. • served or drunk with only a little or no milk or cream. 3 (of a period of time or situation ) characterized by tragedy, unhappiness, or unpleasantness: the dark days of the war. • gloomily pessimistic: a dark vision of the future. • (of an expression ) angry; threatening: Matthew flashed a dark look at her. • suggestive of or arising from evil characteristics or forces; sinister: so many dark deeds had been committed. 4 Phonetics denoting a velarized form of the sound of the letter l (as in pull ). ▶noun 1 (the dark ) the absence of light in a place: Carolyn was sitting in the dark | he's scared of the dark. • nightfall: I'll be home before dark. 2 a dark color or shade, esp. in a painting. PHRASES the darkest hour is just before the dawn proverb when things seem to be at their worst, they are about to start improving. in the dark in a state of ignorance about something: we're clearly being kept in the dark about what's happening. keep something dark keep something secret from other people: I asked Ann to keep my identity dark. a shot (or stab ) in the dark an act whose outcome cannot be foreseen; a mere guess. DERIVATIVES dark ish adjective, dark some |-səm |adjective ( literary )ORIGIN Old English deorc, of Germanic origin, probably distantly related to German tarnen ‘conceal. ’
dark adaptation
dark ad ap ta tion ▶noun the adjustment of the eye to low light intensities, involving reflex dilation of the pupil and activation of the rod cells in preference to the cone cells. DERIVATIVES dark-a dapt ed adjective
Dark Ages
Dark Ag es 1 the period in western Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the high Middle Ages, c. ad 500 –1100, during which Germanic tribes swept through Europe and North Africa, often attacking and destroying towns and settlements. • a period of supposed unenlightenment: the dark ages of racism. • ( the dark ages ) humorous or derogatory an obscure or little-regarded period in the past, esp. as characterizing an outdated attitude or practice: the judge is living in the dark ages. 2 Archaeology a period in Greece and the Aegean from the end of the Bronze Age until the beginning of the archaic period. There was no building of palaces and fortresses, and the art of writing was apparently lost.
Dark and Bloody Ground
Dark and Blood y Ground a nickname for the state of Kentucky.
dark chocolate
dark choc o late |dɑrk ˈtʃɔk (ə )lət | ▶noun slightly bitter chocolate, of a deep brown color, without added milk.
Dark Continent
Dark Con ti nent historical a name given to Africa at a time when it was little known to Europeans.
dark current
dark cur rent ▶noun the residual electric current flowing in a photoelectric device when there is no incident illumination.
darken
dark en |ˈdärkən ˈdɑrkən | ▶verb 1 make or become dark or darker: [ no obj. ] : the sky was darkening rapidly | [ with obj. ] : darken the eyebrows with black powder | (as adj. darkened ) : a darkened room. • [ with obj. ] (of an unpleasant event or state of affairs ) cast a shadow over something; spoil: the abuse darkened the rest of their lives. 2 make or become gloomy, angry, or unhappy: [ no obj. ] : his mood darkened | [ with obj. ] : the abuse darkened the rest of their lives. • [ no obj. ] (of someone's eyes or expression ) show anger or another strong negative emotion: his face darkened and he lunged away. • [ with obj. ] (of such an emotion ) show in (someone's eyes or expression ): misery darkened her gaze. PHRASES darken someone's door [ with negative ] visit someone's home: never darken my door again! DERIVATIVES dark en er noun
dark energy
dark en er gy ▶noun Physics a theoretical repulsive force that counteracts gravity and causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate. Einstein's theories allow for the possible existence of dark energy.
dark-field microscopy
dark-field mi cros co py ▶noun a type of light microscopy that produces brightly illuminated objects on a dark background.
dark glasses
dark glass es |ˈdɑrk ˈˌɡlæsəz | ▶plural noun glasses with tinted lenses, worn to protect or conceal a person's eyes.
Darkhan
Darkhan |dɑːˈkɑːn | an industrial and mining city in northern Mongolia, established in 1961; pop. 78,300 (est. 2009 ).
dark horse
dark horse ▶noun a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds: [ as modifier ] : a dark-horse candidate. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: originally racing slang.
darkie
dark ie |ˈdärkē ˈdɑrki | ▶noun variant spelling of darky.
dark lantern
dark lan tern ▶noun a lantern with a movable panel that can be used to hide the light.
dark line
dark line ▶noun Physics a line in an absorption spectrum, appearing as a black line at visible wavelengths.
darkling
dark ling |ˈdärkliNG ˈdɑrklɪŋ | ▶adjective literary of or relating to growing darkness: the darkling sky. ORIGIN Middle English: from dark + -ling, a suffix denoting condition or situation. The verb darkle is a back-formation dating from the 15th century.
darkling beetle
dark ling bee tle ▶noun a dark-colored nocturnal beetle, typically with reduced or absent wings. [Family Tenebrionidae: numerous genera and species. ]
darkly
dark ly |ˈdärklē ˈdɑrkli | ▶adverb 1 in a threatening, mysterious, or ominous way: “You can't trust him, ” said Jacob darkly. • in a depressing or pessimistic way: I wondered darkly if I was wasting my time. 2 with a dark color: a figure silhouetted darkly against the trees.
dark matter
dark mat ter |dɑrk ˈmædər | ▶noun Astronomy (in some cosmological theories ) nonluminous material that is postulated to exist in space and that could take any of several forms including weakly interacting particles (cold dark matter ) or high-energy randomly moving particles created soon after the Big Bang (hot dark matter ).
dark nebula
dark neb u la ▶noun Astronomy a nonluminous nebula of dust and gas that is observable because it obscures light from other sources.
darkness
dark ness |ˈdärknis ˈdɑrknəs | ▶noun 1 the partial or total absence of light: the office was in darkness. • night: they began to make camp before darkness fell. • the quality of being dark in color: the darkness of his jacket. 2 wickedness or evil: the forces of darkness. • unhappiness, distress, or gloom: moments of darkness were rare. • secrecy or mystery: they drew a veil of darkness across the proceedings. • lack of spiritual or intellectual enlightenment; ignorance: his accomplishments shone in a world of darkness.
darknet
dark net |ˈdärkˌnet ˈdɑrkˌnɛt | ▶noun Computing a computer network with restricted access that is used chiefly for illegal peer-to-peer file sharing.
dark night of the soul
dark night of the soul ▶noun Christian Theology a period of spiritual desolation suffered by a mystic in which all sense of consolation is removed. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: used to translate Spanish Noche oscura, the title of a poem by the mystic St. John of the Cross.
dark reaction
dark re ac tion ▶noun Biochemistry the cycle of reactions (the Calvin cycle ) that occurs in the second phase of photosynthesis and does not require the presence of light. It involves the fixation of carbon dioxide and its reduction to carbohydrate and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP.
darkroom
dark room |ˈdärkˌro͞om, -ˌro͝om ˈdɑrkˌrum ˈdɑrkˌrʊm | ▶noun a room from which normal light is excluded, used for developing photographs.
dark star
dark star |ˈdɑrk ˈˌstɑr | ▶noun Astronomy a starlike object that emits little or no visible light. Its existence is inferred from other evidence, such as the eclipsing of other stars.
darky
dark y |ˈdärkē ˈdɑrki |(also darkie ) ▶noun ( pl. darkies ) informal, offensive a person with black or dark skin.
Oxford Dictionary
dark
dark |dɑːk | ▶adjective 1 with little or no light: it's too dark to see much. • (of a theatre ) closed; not in use. 2 (of a colour or object ) not reflecting much light; approaching black in shade: dark green. • (of someone's skin, hair, or eyes ) brown or black in colour. • (of a person ) having dark skin, hair, or eyes. 3 (of a period or situation ) characterized by great unhappiness or unpleasantness: the dark days of the war. • deeply pessimistic: a dark vision of the future. • (of an expression ) angry. • suggestive of or arising from evil; sinister: so many dark deeds had been committed. 4 hidden from knowledge; mysterious: a dark secret. • (darkest ) humorous (of a region ) most remote, inaccessible, or uncivilized: he lives somewhere in darkest Essex. • archaic ignorant; unenlightened: he is dark on certain points of scripture. 5 Phonetics denoting a velarized form of the sound of the letter l (as in pull in south-eastern English speech ). Often contrasted with clear. ▶noun 1 (the dark ) the absence of light in a place: Carolyn was sitting in the dark. • [ mass noun ] nightfall: I'll be home before dark. 2 a dark colour or shade, especially in a painting. PHRASES the darkest hour is just before the dawn proverb when things seem to be at their worst they are about to start improving. in the dark in a state of ignorance. keep something dark Brit. keep something secret. a shot (or stab ) in the dark an act whose outcome cannot be foreseen; a guess. DERIVATIVES darkish adjective, darksome adjective ( literary )ORIGIN Old English deorc, of Germanic origin, probably distantly related to German tarnen ‘conceal ’.
dark adaptation
dark adap |ta ¦tion ▶noun [ mass noun ] the adjustment of the eye to low light intensities, involving reflex dilation of the pupil and activation of the rod cells in preference to the cone cells. DERIVATIVES dark-adapted adjective
Dark Ages
Dark Ages 1 the period in western Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the high Middle Ages, c. 500 –1100 ad, during which Germanic tribes swept through Europe and North Africa, often attacking and destroying towns and settlements. It was judged to have been a time of relative unenlightenment, though scholarship was kept alive in the monasteries and learning was encouraged at the courts of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. • a period of supposed unenlightenment: a throwback to the dark ages of computing. • ( the dark ages ) humorous or derogatory an obscure or little-regarded period in the past, especially as characterizing an outdated attitude or practice: the judge is living in the dark ages. 2 Archaeology a period in Greece and the Aegean from the end of the Bronze Age until the beginning of the historical period. There was no building of palaces and fortresses, and the art of writing was apparently lost.
dark chocolate
dark choc |olate ▶noun another term for plain chocolate.
Dark Continent
Dark Continent historical a name given to Africa at a time when it was little known to Europeans.
dark current
dark cur |rent ▶noun the residual electric current flowing in a photoelectric device when there is no incident illumination.
darken
dark ¦en |ˈdɑːk (ə )n | ▶verb 1 make or become dark or darker: [ no obj. ] : the sky was darkening rapidly | [ with obj. ] : darken the eyebrows with black powder | (as adj. darkened ) : a darkened room. 2 make or become angry, unhappy, or gloomy: [ no obj. ] : his mood darkened | [ with obj. ] : the abuse darkened the rest of their lives. • [ no obj. ] (of someone's eyes or expression ) show anger, sorrow, or another strong negative emotion. • [ with obj. ] (of anger, sorrow, etc. ) show in (someone's eyes or expression ): misery darkened her gaze. PHRASES never darken someone's door keep away from someone's home permanently. DERIVATIVES darkener noun
dark energy
dark energy ▶noun [ mass noun ] Physics a theoretical form of energy postulated to act in opposition to gravity and to occupy the entire universe, accounting for most of the energy in it and causing its expansion to accelerate.
dark-field microscopy
dark-field microscopy ▶noun [ mass noun ] a type of light microscopy which produces brightly illuminated objects on a dark background.
dark glasses
dark glasses ▶plural noun glasses with tinted lenses, worn to protect or conceal a person's eyes.
Darkhan
Darkhan |dɑːˈkɑːn | an industrial and mining city in northern Mongolia, established in 1961; pop. 78,300 (est. 2009 ).
dark horse
dark horse ▶noun a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: originally racing slang.
darkie
darkie |ˈdɑːki |(also darky ) ▶noun ( pl. darkies ) offensive, informal a black person.
dark lantern
dark lan tern ▶noun a lantern with a movable panel that can be used to hide the light.
dark line
dark line ▶noun Physics an absorption line in an electromagnetic spectrum, appearing as a black line at visible wavelengths.
darkling
dark |ling |ˈdɑːklɪŋ | ▶adjective literary growing dark or characterized by darkness: the darkling sky.
darkling beetle
dark |ling bee ¦tle ▶noun a dark-coloured nocturnal beetle, typically with reduced or absent wings. ●Family Tenebrionidae: numerous genera and species.
darkly
dark ¦ly |ˈdɑːkli | ▶adverb 1 in a threatening, mysterious, or ominous way: ‘You can't trust him, ’ said Jacob darkly. • in a pessimistic way: I wondered darkly if I was wasting my time. 2 with a dark colour: a figure silhouetted darkly against the trees.
dark matter
dark mat ¦ter ▶noun [ mass noun ] Astronomy (in some cosmological theories ) non-luminous material which is postulated to exist in space and which could take either of two forms: weakly interacting particles (cold dark matter ) or high-energy randomly moving particles created soon after the Big Bang (hot dark matter ).
dark nebula
dark neb ¦ula ▶noun Astronomy a non-luminous nebula of dust and gas which is observable because it obscures light from other sources.
darkness
dark |ness |ˈdɑːknəs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 the partial or total absence of light: the office was in darkness. • night: they began to make camp before darkness fell. • the quality of being dark in colour: the darkness of his jacket. 2 wickedness or evil: the forces of darkness. • unhappiness or gloom: moments of darkness were rare. • secrecy or mystery: they drew a veil of darkness across the proceedings. • lack of spiritual or intellectual enlightenment; ignorance: his accomplishments shone in a world of darkness.
darknet
darknet |ˈdɑːknɛt | ▶noun Computing a computer network with restricted access that is used chiefly for illegal peer-to-peer file sharing.
dark night of the soul
dark night of the soul ▶noun a period of spiritual desolation suffered by a mystic in which all sense of consolation is removed. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: used to translate Spanish Noche oscura, the title of a poem by the mystic St John of the Cross.
dark reaction
dark re |ac ¦tion ▶noun Biochemistry the cycle of reactions (the Calvin cycle ) which occurs in the second phase of photosynthesis and does not require the presence of light. It involves the fixation of carbon dioxide and its reduction to carbohydrate and the dissociation of water, using chemical energy stored in ATP.
darkroom
dark |room |ˈdɑːkruːm, -rʊm | ▶noun a room for developing photographs, in which normal light is excluded.
dark star
dark star ▶noun Astronomy a starlike object which emits little or no visible light. Its existence is inferred from other evidence, such as the eclipsing of other stars.
darky
darky ▶noun variant spelling of darkie.
American Oxford Thesaurus
dark
dark adjective 1 a dark night: black, pitch-black, jet-black, inky; unlit, unilluminated, underlit; starless, moonless; dingy, gloomy, dusky, shadowy, shady; literary Stygian. ANTONYMS bright. 2 a dark secret: mysterious, secret, hidden, concealed, veiled, covert, clandestine; enigmatic, arcane, esoteric, obscure, abstruse, impenetrable, incomprehensible, cryptic. 3 dark hair: brunette, dark brown, chestnut, sable, jet-black, ebony. ANTONYMS blond /blonde. 4 dark skin: swarthy, dusky, olive, brown, black, ebony; tanned, bronzed. ANTONYMS pale. 5 dark days: tragic, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; dire, awful, terrible, dreadful, horrible, horrendous, atrocious, nightmarish, harrowing; wretched, woeful. ANTONYMS happy. 6 dark thoughts: gloomy, dismal, pessimistic, negative, downbeat, bleak, grim, fatalistic, black, somber; despairing, despondent, hopeless, cheerless, melancholy, glum, grave, morose, mournful, doleful. ANTONYMS optimistic. 7 a dark look: moody, brooding, sullen, dour, scowling, glowering, angry, forbidding, threatening, ominous. 8 dark deeds: evil, wicked, sinful, immoral, bad, iniquitous, ungodly, unholy, base; vile, unspeakable, sinister, foul, monstrous, shocking, atrocious, abominable, hateful, despicable, odious, horrible, heinous, execrable, diabolical, fiendish, murderous, barbarous, black; sordid, degenerate, depraved; dishonorable, dishonest, unscrupulous; informal lowdown, dirty, crooked, shady. ANTONYMS virtuous, good. ▶noun 1 he's afraid of the dark: darkness, blackness, gloom, murkiness, shadow, shade; dusk, twilight, gloaming. ANTONYMS light. 2 she went out after dark: night, nighttime, darkness; nightfall, evening, twilight, sunset. ANTONYMS dawn, day. PHRASES in the dark informal the workers have been kept completely in the dark about the course and progress of negotiations: unaware, ignorant, incognizant, oblivious, uninformed, unenlightened, unacquainted, unconversant.
darken
darken verb 1 the sky darkened: grow dark, blacken, dim, cloud over, lower; shade, fog. 2 his mood darkened: blacken, become angry, become annoyed; sadden, become gloomy, become unhappy, become depressed, become dejected, become dispirited, become troubled.
darkness
darkness noun 1 lights shone in the darkness: dark, blackness, gloom, dimness, murkiness, shadow, shade; dusk, twilight, gloaming. 2 darkness fell: night, nighttime, dark. 3 the forces of darkness: evil, wickedness, sin, iniquity, immorality; devilry, the Devil.
Oxford Thesaurus
dark
dark adjective 1 a dark night: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark, inky, jet-black, unlit, unlighted, unilluminated, ill-lit, poorly lit; starless, moonless, dim, dingy, gloomy, dusky, indistinct, shadowy, shady; leaden, overcast, sunless; literary crepuscular, tenebrous; rare Stygian, Cimmerian, Tartarean, caliginous. ANTONYMS bright. 2 keep it dark | a dark secret: mysterious, secret, hidden, concealed, veiled, unrevealed, covert, clandestine; enigmatic, arcane, esoteric, obscure, abstruse, recondite, recherché, inscrutable, impenetrable, opaque, incomprehensible, cryptic. 3 dark hair: brunette, dark brown, auburn, tawny, copper-coloured, coppery, chestnut, chestnut-coloured, jet-black, sable, ebony; dark-haired. ANTONYMS blonde. 4 dark skin: swarthy, sallow, olive, dusky, black, ebony; tanned, bronzed, suntanned, sunburned; dark-skinned. ANTONYMS pale. 5 the dark days of the war: tragic, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, ruinous, devastating; dire, ghastly, awful, unfortunate, dreadful, horrible, terrible, horrific, hideous, horrendous, frightful, atrocious, abominable, abhorrent, gruesome, grisly, monstrous, nightmarish, heinous, harrowing; wretched, woeful; literary direful. ANTONYMS happy. 6 my mind is full of dark thoughts: gloomy, dismal, pessimistic, negative, defeatist, downbeat, gloom-ridden, cynical, bleak, grim, fatalistic, black, sombre, drab, dreary; despairing, despondent, depressed, dejected, demoralized, hopeless, cheerless, joyless, melancholy, glum, lugubrious, Eeyorish, grave, funereal, morose, mournful, doleful, suspicious, distrustful, doubting, alarmist. ANTONYMS optimistic. 7 Matthew flashed a dark look at her: moody, brooding, sullen, dour, glum, morose, sulky, frowning, scowling, glowering, angry, forbidding, threatening, ominous. ANTONYMS kindly. 8 so many dark deeds had been committed | a dark secret: evil, wicked, sinful, immoral, wrong, morally wrong, wrongful, bad, iniquitous; ungodly, unholy, irreligious, unrighteous, sacrilegious, profane, blasphemous, impious, godless, base, mean, vile; shameful, discreditable, unspeakable, foul, monstrous, shocking, outrageous, atrocious, abominable, reprehensible, hateful, detestable, despicable, odious, contemptible, horrible, heinous, execrable, diabolical, diabolic, fiendish, vicious, murderous, barbarous, black, rotten, perverted, reprobate, sordid, degenerate, depraved, dissolute, dishonourable, dishonest, unscrupulous, unprincipled; informal crooked, bent, warped, low-down, stinking, dirty, shady; Law malfeasant; rare dastardly, peccable, egregious, flagitious. ANTONYMS good, virtuous. ▶noun 1 he's afraid of the dark: darkness, blackness, absence of light, gloom, gloominess, dimness, dullness, murk, murkiness, shadowiness, shadow, shade, shadiness, dusk, twilight, gloaming; rare tenebrosity. ANTONYMS light. 2 as dark fell, the street lights went on | she only went out after dark: night, night-time, darkness, hours of darkness; nightfall, evening, twilight, sunset. ANTONYMS day; dawn. PHRASES in the dark informal we're being kept in the dark about what is happening: unaware of, ignorant of, in ignorance of, oblivious to, uninformed about, unenlightened about, unacquainted with, unconversant with; rare nescient of. ANTONYMS aware.
darken
darken verb 1 the sky darkened: grow dark /darker, blacken, grow black /blacker, dim, grow dim, cloud over, lour. ANTONYMS lighten. 2 fixative can darken the colours in a picture: make dark /darker, blacken, make black /blacker, make dim, shade, eclipse, fog, obscure. 3 the misery that darkened his later life | his mood darkened: make /become gloomy, make /become angry, make /become unhappy, make /become annoyed, make /become depressed, cast down, become cast down, deject, become dejected, weigh down, oppress, dampen the spirits of, make /become dispirited, make /become troubled, cast a pall over, blacken, look black, sadden; spoil, mar, detract from.
darkness
darkness noun 1 lights shone in the darkness: dark, blackness, absence of light, gloom, gloominess, dimness, dullness, murk, murkiness, shadowiness, shadow, shade, shadiness, dusk, twilight, gloaming; rare tenebrosity. ANTONYMS light. 2 the sun went down, and darkness fell: night, night-time, dark, hours of darkness. ANTONYMS day. 3 the forces of darkness: evil, wickedness, corruption, sin, sinfulness, iniquity, immorality, devilry, the Devil, hell. ANTONYMS good. WORD LINKS darkness scotophobia fear of darkness Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.
Duden Dictionary
Dark Horse
Dark Horse , Dark horse Substantiv, Neutrum Jargon , das Darkhorse |ˈdaːɐ̯k ˈhɔːs |das Dark Horse; Genitiv: des Dark Horse, Plural: die Dark Horses |[…hɔsɪz ]|das Darkhorse; Genitiv: des Darkhorse, Plural: die Darkhorses englisch ; »dunkles Pferd «noch nicht bekanntes Rennpferd
Darkroom
Dark room , Dark Room Substantiv, maskulin , der Dark Room |…ruːm |der Darkroom; Genitiv: des Darkrooms, Plural: die Darkrooms der Dark Room; Genitiv: des Dark Rooms, Dark Rooms meist völlig abgedunkeltes Hinter-, Nebenzimmer o. Ä. als Ort für sexuelle Kontakte in von Homosexuellen besuchten Lokalen
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
dark
dark /dɑː r k /〖原義は 「陰うつな 」〗(動 )darken, (名 )darkness 形容詞 ～er ; ～est 1 暗やみの , 暗い (↔light 1 )▸ go dark 暗くなる ▸ It had already got dark when we reached Paris .パリに着いた時すでに暗くなっていた 2 〈色が 〉濃い (↔light 1 ); 〈物が 〉黒い, 黒っぽい ▸ dark green 深緑 ▸ a dark suit 黒っぽいスーツ 3 〈目 髪が 〉黒い , 〈人 (の肌 )が 〉浅黒い ▸ a man with dark hair 黒い髪の男 ▸ Tom was a slim, dark man .トムは細身で肌の浅黒い男だった 4 ｟文 ｠〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗a. 邪悪な, 悪意のある 〈目つき 言葉 性格など 〉▸ a dark purpose 邪悪な目的 b. 暗い, 陰うつな 〈気持ち 思考など 〉; 不吉な 〈考えなど 〉▸ the dark side of things 物事の暗い面 ▸ A dark feeling gripped the man .不吉な予感がその男を襲った 5 ｟くだけて ｠秘密の (secret )▸ We must keep the fact dark .その事実は秘密にしておかなければならない 6 ｟否定的に ｠〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗暗黒の, 希望のない, 暗い 〈時代 時期など 〉▸ the dark ages of medicine 医学の暗黒時代 7 〖名詞 の前で 〗神秘的な, 未知の 〈場所 地域など 〉.8 〘音声 〙〈/l /音が 〉暗い (↔clear ) 〘子音の前や語尾の /l /〙.名詞 U 1 〖the ～〗暗がり, やみ, 暗やみ ▸ be afraid of the dark 暗やみを恐れる ▸ sneak around in the dark 暗がりでこそこそ立ち回る 2 日暮れ (!この意味では無冠詞 ) ▸ after [before ] dark 日が暮れてから [暮れる前に ]▸ at dark 夕暮れに 3 暗い色, 濃い陰 ; 暗い場所 .in the d á rk 1 ↑名詞 1 .2 ｟くだけて ｠ «…について » 何も知らない «about » ▸ I am quite in the dark about what you want .あなたが何を望んでいるのかまったくわからない ▸ Tom kept us in the dark about his future plans .トムは将来の計画について私たちに何も知らせなかった 3 秘密に .wh ì stle in the d á rk (恐怖 不安などを隠して )自信 [度胸 ]ありげにふるまう, 空元気を出す .～́ adapt à tion (目の )暗順応 (↔light adaptation ).D -́ À ges 1 〖the ～〗(ヨーロッパの )暗黒時代 〘ローマ帝国滅亡の476年ごろから1000年ごろまでの文化が停滞していた時代 〙.2 〖the ～; 時にd - a- 〗(一般に )暗黒時代, 希望のない時代 (↑形容詞 6 ).D -̀ C ó ntinent 〖the ～〗暗黒大陸 〘かつてヨーロッパ人にとって未知の大陸だったアフリカのこと 〙.～̀ gl á sses サングラス .～̀ h ó rse ダークホース 〘予想外の勝ち馬 [勝利者 ]〙; ｟英 ｠予想外の実力者 .～̀ l á ntern (光を隠す窓の付いた )カンテラ .～̀ m á tter 暗黒物質 〘宇宙を形作っているとされる物質 〙.～̀ m é at 赤身肉 .～̀ s é cret 隠された秘密 .～̀ st á r 〘天 〙暗黒星 .
darken
dark en /dɑ́ː r k (ə )n /〖dark (暗く )en (なる )〗動詞 ～s /-z /; ～ed /-d /; ～ing 自動詞 1 ｟書 ｠〈空 部屋などが 〉暗くなる (↔lighten 1 )▸ The day darkened into night .日が暮れて夜になった 2 〈人が 〉陰気 [憂うつ ]になる; 〈表情が 〉 (突然 )曇る ; 怒る ▸ His face darkened with fury .怒りで彼の顔が曇った 3 黒ずむ .4 ぼんやりしてくる ; はっきりしなくなる .5 目が見えなくなる .他動詞 1 …を (薄 )暗くする (↔lighten 1 )▸ The sky was darkened with clouds .空が雲で暗くなった 2 〈人 〉を憂うつ [陰うつ ]にする ▸ His life was darkened by the loss of his daughter .彼の人生は娘を失って暗くなった 3 …を黒ずませる .4 …をぼんやりさせる ; あいまいにする, 不明確にする .5 …の目を見えなくする .
darkened
d á rk ened 形容詞 〖通例 名詞 の前で 〗暗い, 暗くなった 〈部屋 建物など 〉.
darkie
dark ie -ey -y /dɑ́ː r ki /名詞 複 -ies C ｟古 けなして ｠黒人, 黒んぼ .
darkly
d á rk ly 副詞 1 脅すように ; 険悪に .2 憂うつそうに ; 沈んで .3 あいまいに (vaguely ); なぞめいて (mysteriously ).4 ぼんやりと (faintly ).5 黒く 〈日焼けするなど 〉; 暗く .
darkness
dark ness /dɑ́ː r knəs /→dark 名詞 U 1 暗さ, やみ ▸ in total [complete ] darkness 真っ暗やみの [で ]2 夜 ▸ Darkness fell .夜の帳 （とばり ）がおりた 3 邪悪 ▸ the powers [forces ] of darkness 悪事, 犯罪 (!The Prince [Angel ] of Darkness などと擬人法で表現されることもある ) 4 (色の )黒さ .5 あいまいさ, 不明瞭 （めいりよう ）さ .6 秘密 .7 無知 .8 盲目 .
darkroom
d á rk r ò om 名詞 C (写真現像用の )暗室 .
darky
d á rk y /-i /名詞 複 -ies ＝darkie .
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