dark
absence of light or illumination
How often you will meet it
Rank 359 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 55,760 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.027% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- absence of light or illumination also: darkness
- absence of moral or spiritual values also: wickedness, darkness the powers of darkness
- an unilluminated area also: darkness, shadow he moved off into the darkness
- the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside also: night, nighttime
- an unenlightened state also: darkness he was in the dark concerning their intentionshis lectures dispelled the darkness
adjective
- devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black sitting in a dark cornera dark day
- (used of color) having a dark hue dark greendark glasses
- brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes) dark eyes
dark in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The girl in the dark garden stood laughing, crying, and listened.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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With dark eyes and eyelashes she would have been a beauty.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles · Agatha Christie · Chapter 1
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Because of the drawn blinds the room was nearly as dark as the corridor.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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The night is dark and I am far from home; Lead Thou me on!
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Her traveling dress lay on the bed--a plain dark silk--her only silk gown except the marriage one.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1