Darkness
['dɑrknəs]
Definition
(noun.) a swarthy complexion.
(noun.) having a dark or somber color.
(noun.) an unilluminated area; 'he moved off into the darkness'.
Checked by Alyson--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
(n.) A state of privacy; secrecy.
(n.) A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.
(n.) Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
(n.) A state of distress or trouble.
Inputed by Ezra
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Obscurity, dimness, dark, want of light.[2]. Ignorance, blindness, want of knowledge.[3]. Gloom, despondency, cheerlessness, joylessness.
Editor: Lyle
Examples
- My heart turns faint, my mind sinks in darkness and confusion when I think of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the darkness which had now fallen none could tell but that he had really finished me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Fellow Travellers In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Edith Baxter was within thirty yards of the stables, when a man appeared out of the darkness and called to her to stop. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I tried vainly, in the gathering darkness, to see his face. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And she knew that under this dark and lonely bridge the young colliers stood in the darkness with their sweethearts, in rainy weather. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The shadows were deepening, darkness was settling in. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The darkness seemed to be swaying in waves across his mind, great waves of darkness plunging across his mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The earth seemed to tilt and sway, and a complete darkness was coming over his mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And she did not speak, but only pressed her hands firmer down upon the source of darkness in him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Once--unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- When we were out in the darkness of the quadrangle, we again looked up at the windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There was no sound, and he glided into the semi-darkness of the interior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Typist: Nelda