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Енглески

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Etymology 1

FromСредњи Енглескиderk, fromСтари Енглескиdeorc, fromПра-Западно Германски*derk(“dark”), fromProto-Indo-European*dʰerg-(“dim, dull”), fromProto-Indo-European*dʰer-(“dull, dirty”).

Adjective

A fairly dark (lacking light) railroad station, with a very dark (lacking light) tunnel beyond
A woman withdark hair and skin.

dark (comparativedarker,superlativedarkest)

  1. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack oflight.
    The room was toodark for reading.
    • 1879,R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, inThe Amateur Poacher, London:Smith, Elder, & Co., […],→OCLC:
      They burned the old gun that used to stand in thedark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
    • 2013 јул 20, “Out of the gloom”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in thedark, look for specks of light in the villages.
    1. (of a source oflight)Extinguished.
      Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
    2. Deprived ofsight;blind.
      • 29 March 1661 (entry),1818 (first published),John Evelyn,Diary
        He was, I think, at this time quitedark, and so had been for some years.
  2. Transmitting,reflecting, orreceiving inadequate light to rendertimelydiscernment orcomprehension:caliginous,darkling,dim,gloomy,lightless,sombre.
  3. (of colour)Dull ordeeper inhue; notbright orlight.
    my sister's hair isdarker than mine;  her skin grewdark with a suntan
  4. Ambiguously orunclearly expressed:enigmatic,esoteric,mysterious,obscure,undefined.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost
    • 1594–,Richard Hooker,Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
      What may seemdark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
    • 1801, Isaac Watts,The improvement of the mind, or A supplement to the art of logic
      It is the remark of an ingenious writer, should a barbarous Indian, who had never seen a palace or a ship, view their separate and disjointed parts, and observe the pillars, doors, windows, cornices and turrets of the one, or the prow and stern, the ribs and masts, the ropes and shrouds, the sails and tackle of the other, he would be able to form but a very lame anddark idea of either of those excellent and useful inventions.
    • 1881,John Shairp,Aspects of Poetry
      thedark problems of existence
  5. Marked by orconducted withsecrecy:hidden,secret;clandestine,surreptitious.
    (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
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  6. Without moral or spiritual light;sinister,malign.
    adark villain;  adark deed
  7. Conducive tohopelessness;depressing orbleak.
    the Great Depression was adark time;  the film was adark psychological thriller
  8. (of a time period) Lackingprogress inscience or thearts.
    • 1668,Sir John Denham,The Progress of Learning
      The age wherein he lived wasdark, but he
      Could not want light who taught the world to see.
    • 1837,Henry Hallam,Introduction to the Literature of Europe, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
      The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as thedarkest part of this intellectual night.
  9. Extremelysad,depressing, orsomber, typically due to, or marked by, atragic orundesirableevent.
    September 11, 2001, the day when four terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is often referred to as America'sdark day.
    • 2014 април 1, “Marathon Mementos Remind of Boston'sDark Day”, inNBC News‎[1]:
  10. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form, or a portion of either.
    The ending of this book is ratherdark.
  11. (broadcasting, of a television station)Off the air; nottransmitting.
Synonyms
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Translations
having an absolute or relative lack of light
hidden, secret
without moral or spiritual light
not bright or light, deeper in hue
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Etymology 2

FromСредњи Енглескиderk,derke,dirke,dyrke, from the adjective (see above), or possibly from an unrecordedСтари Енглески*dierce,*diercu(“dark, darkness”).

Noun

dark (usuallyuncountable,pluraldarks)

  1. A complete or (more often) partial absence oflight.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare King Lear
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 17, inThe China Governess‎[2]:
      The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits ofdark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
    • 2013 јул 20, “Out of the gloom”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
      [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in thedark, look for specks of light in the villages.
    Dark surrounds us completely.
  2. (uncountable)Ignorance.
    We kept him in thedark.
    The lawyer was left in thedark as to why the jury was dismissed.
  3. (uncountable)Nightfall.
    It was afterdark before we got to playing baseball.
  4. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
Synonyms
Derived terms
 
Translations
a complete or partial absence of light
ignorance
nightfall
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Etymology 3

FromСредњи Енглескиderken, fromСтари Енглескиdeorcian, fromПра-Западно Германски*derkōn.

Verb

dark (third-person singular simple presentdarks,present participledarking,simple past and past participledarked)

  1. (intransitive) Togrow orbecome dark,darken.
  2. (intransitive) Toremain in the dark,lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
  3. (transitive) To make dark,darken; toobscure.

See also

Anagrams

Италијански

Etymology

Енглески

Pronunciation

Adjective

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  1. dark (used especially to describe a form of punk music)

References

  1. ↑Шаблон:R:it:DiPI
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