| Definitions | noun
- A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
- Dark surrounds us completely.
- Ignorance
- We kept him in the .
- Nightfall
- It was after before we got to playing baseball.
Translations: - Dutch: het vallen van de avond
- German: Dunkelwerden
- Italian: tenebra(it)f, tramonto(it)m
- Spanish: anochecer(es)m
- French: tombée de la nuit(fr)
adjective (darker, darkest)
- Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
- The room was too for reading.
- (context, of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
- My sister's hair is darker than mine.
- Her skin grew with a suntan.
- hidden, Hidden, secret
- "Meantime we shall express our darker purpose" (Shakespeare, King Lear, i 1).
- Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
- Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak
- The Great Depression was a time.
- Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period
- 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 rather .
Translations: - Dutch: duister
- French: noir(fr)
- German: de(de, dunkel}}, t+)dí¼ster
- Italian: it(it, oscuro, fosco(it), {{t+)tetro
- Spanish: oscuro(es)
Etymology: From deorc
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