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adjective

/dɑː(r)k/

adjective	dark
comparative	darker
superlative	darkest

1
lacking light
a dark and stormy night
When Maggie woke up, it was still dark.
completely dark:
By this time it was ten o’clock and completely dark.
get/grow dark:
When they left, it was already starting to get dark (=become dark at the end of a day).
go dark (=become suddenly dark):
The room went dark and the cinema screen flickered into life.
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2
black, or almost black, in colour
He was dressed in a dark suit with a white shirt.
There were dark patches on the walls where water had soaked through.
She glanced up at the dark clouds above the cliffs.
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1. a.
  strong and not pale in colour
  dark blue/green/red etc:
  a dark blue jacket
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2. b.
  dark hair, eyes, or skin are brown or black in colour
  He was tanned and had dark curly hair.
  an attractive dark-haired nurse
  He looked up at her, his dark eyes strangely bright.
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3. c.
  if a white person is described as being dark, they have brown or black hair and sometimes skin that is not light in colour
  a tall dark man
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3
[usually before noun] morally bad, dangerous, or frightening
I always suspected there was a darker side to his character.
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4
[usually before noun] a dark time is one in which people feel frightened, unhappy, and without hope
during the darkest days of the war
someone’s darkest hour:
This was the President’s darkest hour.
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5
[usually before noun] a dark look or remark is angry and threatening
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6
[usually before noun] dark thoughts are sad because you believe that something bad is going to happen
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7
[usually before noun] a dark secret or mystery is kept well hidden, especially because people would not approve if they knew about it
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8
[only before noun] a dark place is distant and mysterious because very little information is known about it
in some dark corner of his mind
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9
theatre if a theatre is dark, there are no performances there during a particular time
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