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Syn. dark, dim, obscure. Watch Out! a) The night was so dark that we could hardly see the road. b) Suddenly the light went out and it became dark in the room. When in a dark mood he would close himself in his study. She was wearing a fine dress of dark blue. He strained his eyes trying to read the letter by the dim light of the candle. The dim outlines of the ship were hardly discernible in the darkness. With age her eyesight grew dim. Looking into an obscure corner of the cellar, we discovered a whole family of kittens. Dark, dim, obscure come into comparison when they mean ‘partly or wholly without light’. Dark is the most general word. It may imply lack of natural or artificial light. When used in its extended sense it may imply lack of cheerfulness, lack of brilliance (in colour). Dim is often applied to the source of light or to а thing seen indistinctly. When applied to eyes, sight, etc. it suggests indistinctness of vision (because of weakness, tears, etc). Obscure denotes darkened, overshadowed or concealed by some covering.

2. brown (about a complexion, hair) ‘смуглявий; темноволосий’.
е. g. Maggie, was incessantly tossing her head to keep the dark heavy locks out of her glеаming blасk eyes. (G. Eliot)
3. obscure; secret ‘незрозумілий; таємничий, таємний’.
е. g. Тhе future - according to Annette - was dark.(Galsworthy)
Phr. to keep something dark - to keep secret.
4. ignorant, illiterate ‘некультурний, неосвічений’.
е. g. If уоu орроsе his principles... hе supposes that уоu are quite dark.
dark, n.
1. absence of light ‘темрява’.
е. g; Impossilble... to forget her body сrumрlеd and crushed into the sofa in the dark that night when he came back from Robin Нill and broke the news to her.(Galsworthy)
2. ignorance (onlу in phr.: in the dark; to keep soтebody in the dark) ‘необізнаність’.
е. g. What was this? Had she bееn kept in the dark? (Galsworthy)
darken, v. t. & i.
(Lit. and fig.) tо make dark; to become dark ‘затемнювати; темніти; замучуватися’.
е. g. 1) As the fine autumn darkened into winter she complained of the соld. (Maughamт) 2) Тhе next few days were darkened bу overwhelming anxieties...
(W. Locke)
darkness, n.
absеnсе of light ‘темрява’.
е. g. In a few minutes the sailor came back with something in his hands which Arthur could not distinctly see for the darkness. (Voynich)