dark

adj

1. lightless, aphotic, opaque, black, black as ink, inky, pitch-dark, pitchy, jetblack, jetty; unilluminated, unlit, shady, shadowy, Literary. darkling; murky, foggy, misty, tenebrous, Archaic. caligi-nous; dull, dim, faint, pale, feeble, weak, ill-lighted, poorly-lit.

2. swarthy, swart, dusky, ebony, sable, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned.

3. dismal, dreary, bleak, grim, funereal; somber solemn, grave, heavy; gloomy, melancholy, blue, depressed, dejected, cheerless, joyless, sad, sorrowful, disconsolate, doleful, dolorous, Inf. down in the dumps, Inf. down in the mouth.

4. sullen, dour, glum, morose, sulky, long-faced crestfallen, chapfallen, moody, brooding; frowning, scowling, glowering, black-browed.

5. evil, wicked, villainous, infamous, iniquitous, black-hearted, flagitious, base, vile; ominous, foreboding, threatening, menacing, sinister.

6. ignorant, unenlightened, unlearned, inerudite, uneducated, unschooled, untutored, untaught; uncultured, uncultivated, unrefined.

7. recondite, abstruse, profound, deep, esoteric; impenetrable, incomprehensible, unfathomable; difficult, hard, over one's head, Inf. tough; complex, complicated, intricate, Inf. tricky.

8. occult, hidden, secret, cryptic, perdu, concealed, veiled; obscure, vague, nebulous, ambiguous, Rare. imperspicuous; mysterious, arcane, inexplicable, enigmatic, puzzling, baffling, perplexing, confounding, bewildering.

9. reticent, taciturn, uncommunicative, reserved, retiring, quiet, close-mouthed, close; silent, mute, mum, obmutescent, secretive, evasive.

n

10. darkness, lightlessness, blackness, opacity; gloom, gloominess, murk, murkiness, obscurity, tene-brosity, semidarkness.

11. night, nighttime, nightfall, dead of night, witching hour.

12. in the dark

a. benighted, in darkness, in ignorance; ignorant, uninformed. See alsodark(def.6).b. in secrecy, secret, closed, concealed, obscured, veiled, sealed.