dark#1 (a)

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type a
lex_filenum 00
def devoid of or deficient in light or brightness
def shadowed or black
examples sitting in a dark corner
a dark day
dark shadows
dark as the inside of a black cat
Outgoing links
Attribute light, lightness
Derivationally related form dark → dark; dark → darkness
Derivationally related form dark → dark
Antonym dark → light
Similar to Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian; aphotic; black, pitch-black, pitch-dark; caliginous; Cimmerian; crepuscular; darkened; darkening; darkling; darkling; dim, subdued; dusky, twilight(a), twilit; glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky; lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit; semidark; tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious
Incoming links
Antonym light → dark
Similar to Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian; aphotic; black, pitch-black, pitch-dark; caliginous; Cimmerian; crepuscular; darkened; darkening; darkling; darkling; dim, subdued; dusky, twilight(a), twilit; glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky; lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit; semidark; tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious
Derived from adjective darkly → dark
Attribute light, lightness
Derivationally related form dark → dark
Derivationally related form darkness → dark; dark → dark

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