Usually means: Absence or deficiency of light.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word dark:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dark, the dark: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dark, the dark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dark: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dark: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dark: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dark, dark: Wordnik
  7. dark, the dark: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dark, dark: Wiktionary
  9. dark: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dark: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dark: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dark, dark: Dictionary.com
  13. dark: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dark: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. D.A.R.K, Dark (TV series), Dark (album), Dark (broadcasting), Dark (disambiguation), Dark (surname), Dark (video game), Dark, The Dark (Curley novel), The Dark (Guy Clark album), The Dark (Herbert novel), The Dark (McGahern novel), The Dark (Metal Church album), The Dark (film), The Dark: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dark: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dark: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dark: Rhymezone
  19. dark: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dark: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Dark: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. dark: Free Dictionary
  23. dark: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Dark, dark: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. dark: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. dark: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dark: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Jazz Humor (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dark: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dark: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dark: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DARK: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. dark: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DARK: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dark, dark, dark: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dark: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Dark, The Dark: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
adjective:  (of a source of light) Extinguished.
adjective:  Deprived of sight; blind.
adjective:  Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
adjective:  (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
adjective:  Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
adjective:  Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
adjective:  (gambling, of race horses) Having racing capability not widely known.
adjective:  Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
adjective:  Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
adjective:  (of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
adjective:  Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
adjective:  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.
adjective:  (broadcasting, of a television station) Off the air; not transmitting.
noun:  A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
noun:  (uncountable) Ignorance.
noun:  (uncountable) Nightfall.
noun:  A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
verb:  (intransitive) To grow or become dark, darken.
verb:  (intransitive) To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
verb:  (transitive) To make dark, darken; to obscure.
noun:  A surname.

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