dark

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /dɑːk/    美 /dɑɹk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light. uncountable,usually
    — Dark surrounds us completely.
  2. Ignorance. uncountable,usually
    — We kept him in the dark.
  3. Nightfall. uncountable,usually
    — It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
  4. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc. uncountable,usually
    — The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.
动词 v.
  1. To grow or become dark, darken. intransitive
  2. To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed. intransitive
    — To dark is still used in Swaledale (Yorkshire) in the sense of to lie hid, as, 'Te rattens [rats] mun ha bin darkin whel nu [till now]; we hannot heerd tem tis last fortnith'.
  3. To make dark, darken; to obscure. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
    — The room was too dark for reading.
  2. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.; Extinguished.
    — Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
  3. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.; Deprived of sight; blind.
    — He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.
  4. Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension
  5. Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
    — My sister’s hair is darker than mine.
  6. Ambiguously or unclearly expressed.
    — What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
  7. Marked by or conducted with secrecy.
    — The dark side of the moon.
  8. Marked by or conducted with secrecy.; Having racing capability not widely known.
    — The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless [Duke of] St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
  9. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
    — a dark villain
  10. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
    — The Great Depression was a dark time.
  11. Lacking progress in science or the arts.
    — The dark ages began after the collapse of the Roman Empire.
  12. Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
    — September 11, 2001, the day when four terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is often referred to as America’s dark day.
  13. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant and macabre 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 dark.
  14. Off the air; not transmitting.

词形变化

darker comparative darkest superlative darks plural darks present,singular,third-person darking participle,present darked participle,past darked past

词汇关系

近义词
blear caliginous cimmerian crepuscular dark darksome darkling dim dimpsy dingy dull dusky fuliginous gloomy infernal leaden lightless mirksome murky murksome obscure shady somber sombrous stygian sunless swarthy tenebrose tenebrous twilightish umbrageous unilluminated evenfall mirkning
反义词
bright glowing light lit luminous luminiferous radiant shining sunny
下位词
dark as Egypt
衍生词
0-dark-hundred 0-dark-thirty Alexander's dark band all cats are grey in the dark antidark bedark dark academia dark academic dark-activity dark-adapted dark advertising dark age dark ages Dark Alfs dark alternative scene dark ambient dark and stormy dark art dark as Egypt dark as pitch dark as the inside of a cow dark blue dark-blue snakeweed dark blue snakeweed Dark Brandon dark bread dark brown dark cabaret dark chocolate dark cloud dark comedy Dark Continent darkcore Dark Corner dark corn syrup dark crimson underwing dark culture dark current dark cutter darkcutter darkcutting dark data dark earth dark elf dark empath dark energy Dark Enlightenment dark-eyed dark-eyed junco dark factory darkfall dark fantasy dark fiber dark fibre darkfic darkfield dark field dark figure dark fleet dark flight dark flow dark fluid dark forest hypothesis darkful dark fungus dark glasses dark gopher frog dark green fritillary dark-haired dark-hearted dark hearted darkhorse dark-horse dark horse dark house dark humor dark humour dark hydrogen darkie darkey darky darkish dark jungle glory dark kitchen dark l dark-lantern dark lantern dark-lanthorn dark lanthorn dark life dark light darkling darkly Dark MAGA dark magic darkmans dark market dark matter dark meat dark mode dark money dark moon dark nebula dark-necked tailorbird darknet dark night dark night of the soul darkon dark o’clock dark pattern dark pool dark post darkpsy dark reaction dark red dark ride dark romance darkroom dark satanic mill dark sector dark shyshark darkside dark-side dark side dark side of the Force darkskin dark-skinned dark sleeper dark slide dark social dark soliton darksome dark space dark spinach dark star dark store dark territory dark thirty dark tourism dark tourist darktown dark trading dark traffic dark triad dark up dark vowel darkward darkwards darkwave dark wave Dark Web dark woke dark world dark-zilla Darth Darth Vader endark European dark bee every dark cloud has a silver lining Faraday dark space go dark grimdark Joan's as good as my lady in the dark look on the dark side look on the dark side of it non-baryonic dark matter o-dark-thirty oh-dark-thirty oh dark hundred pitch-dark pitch dark the dark side of the moon semidark stab in the dark take a shot in the dark the darkest hour is just before the dawn warm dark matter wine-dark zero dark thirty after dark all cats are gray in the dark at dark before dark black dark dusky dark glow-in-the-dark in the dark leap in the dark murder in the dark oh dark thirty shot in the dark whistle in the dark
相关词
darken darkling darkness Egyptian darkness dark colour black shadow

词源

词源 1
From Middle English derk, from Old English deorc, from Proto-West Germanic *derk (“dark”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“dim, dull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“dull, dirty”).
词源 2
From Middle English derk, derke, dirke, dyrke, from the adjective (see above), or possibly from an unrecorded Old English *dierce, *diercu (“dark, darkness”).
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg-o-s
Proto-Germanic *derkaz?
Proto-West Germanic *derk
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-West Germanic *-ōn
Proto-West Germanic *derkōn
Old English deorcian
Middle English derken
English dark
Inherited from Middle English derken, from Old English deorcian, from Proto-West Germanic *derkōn, from *derk (“dirty, dark”) + *-ōn.
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