Dark

[dɑːk] or [dɑrk]

解释:

(noun.) an unenlightened state; 'he was in the dark concerning their intentions'; 'his lectures dispelled the darkness'.

(noun.) absence of light or illumination.

(adj.) not giving performances; closed; 'the theater is dark on Mondays' .

(adj.) brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); 'dark eyes' .

(adj.) devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; 'sitting in a dark corner'; 'a dark day'; 'dark shadows'; 'dark as the inside of a black cat' .

(adj.) (used of color) having a dark hue; 'dark green'; 'dark glasses'; 'dark colors like wine red or navy blue' .

(adj.) marked by difficulty of style or expression; 'much that was dark is now quite clear to me'; 'those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure' .

(adj.) showing a brooding ill humor; 'a dark scowl'; 'the proverbially dour New England Puritan'; 'a glum, hopeless shrug'; 'he sat in moody silence'; 'a morose and unsociable manner'; 'a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius'- Bruce Bliven; 'a sour temper'; 'a sullen crowd' .

(adj.) secret; 'keep it dark' .

录入:凯思琳--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.

(a.) Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.

(a.) Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.

(a.) Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.

(a.) Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.

(a.) Deprived of sight; blind.

(n.) Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.

(n.) The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.

(n.) A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.

(v. t.) To darken to obscure.

拜伦整理

同义词及近义词：

a. [1]. Unilluminated, unenlightened, dusky, shadowy, rayless, sunless, darksome, lurid, murky, cloudy, shady, overcast, black, ebon, Cimmerian, not light, pitchy.[2]. Mysterious, obscure, incomprehensible, unintelligible, enigmatical, mystic, mystical, recondite, occult, transcendental, abstruse, cabalistic.[3]. Gloomy, disheartening, discouraging, cheerless, dismal.[4]. Untaught, ignorant, unlettered, rude.[5]. Wicked, atrocious, infamous, foul, vile, infernal.

n. [1]. Darkness, obscurity, want of light.[2]. Ignorance, blindness, want of knowledge.

艾伯特整理

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Black, dusky, sable, swarthy, opaque, obscure, enigmatical, recondite,abstruse, unintelligible, blind, ignorant, besotted, benighted, dim, shadowy,inexplicable, secret, mysterious, hidden, murky, nebulous, cheerless, dismal,dim, gloomy, sombre, joyless, mournful, sorrowful

ANT:White, fair, light, radiant, bright, lucid, crystalline, transparent,brilliant, plain, intelligible, enlightened, glaring, dazzling, illumined,festive, luminous

整理:薇尔玛

解释:

adj. without light: black or somewhat black: gloomy: difficult to understand: unenlightened: secret: sinister.—n. absence of light: obscurity: a state of ignorance.—adv. (Shak.) in a state of dark.—v.t. Dark′en to make dark: to render ignorant: to sully.—v.i. to grow dark or darker.—n. Dark′-house (Shak.) a mad-house.—adj. Dark′ish somewhat dark: dusky.—v.i. Dark′le to grow dark.—adv. and adj. Dark′ling dark: in the dark.—advs. Dark′lings (poet.) in the dark; Dark′ly.—n. Dark′ness.—adj. Dark′some dark: (poet.) gloomy.—ns. Dark′y Dark′ey a negro: (slang) a policeman's lantern.—Dark ages the period of intellectual darkness in Europe from the 5th to the 15th century.—Darken the door to enter in at the door.—A dark horse in racing a horse whose capabilities are not known: a candidate about whom it is not known till the last moment that he is a candidate.—Keep dark to be silent or secret; Keep it dark to conceal.—The prince of darkness Satan.

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