Reverse Dictionary: DARK

ADJECTIVES
► ACHERONIAN relating to or suggestive of the underworld of the ancient Greeks, or the mythical river Acheron; infernal, hellish; dark, gloomy → 1849 chiefly literary usage
► ACHERONTIC dark, gloomy → 1600
► ACHERONTICAL infernal, hellish; dark, gloomy → 1610 obs.
► ADNUBILATED darkened or clouded → 1731 obs.
► BASE dark, deep-coloured → 1533 obs.
► BENIGHTED overtaken by darkness → 1805 Amer. dial.
► BLACK AS A BAG very dark → 1887 Eng. dial.
► BLACK AS COAL extremely dark or evil → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
► BLACK AS THE ACE OF SPADES very black or dark; of a person: having very dark skin → 1817 colloq., now usually offensive
► BLACK AS THE KING OF HELL’S RIDING BOOTS as black or dark as could be → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BLACK AS THE NIGHT extremely dark → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
► BLACK AS TOAL’S CLOAK very dark → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BLACK AS ZIP extremely black or dark → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CALIGINOUS dark, obscure; misty, dim, murky → 1548 arch.
► DARK AS A BAG extremely dark → 19C colloq.
► DARK AS A BLACK COW’S SKIN very dark → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DARK AS A BOOT very dark indeed → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DARK AS AN ABO’S ARSEHOLE very dark → 1960s Aust. sl.
► DARK AS A NIGGER’S POCKET  very dark → M19 Aust. sl., now offensive
► DARK AS A POCKET extremely dark; said of a very dark night → 19C nautical sl.
► DARK AS BELLOWS completely dark → 1889 Eng. dial.
► DARK AS BLACK HOGS very dark indeed → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DARK AS DUNGEON very dark indeed → 1892 Eng. dial.
► DARK AS EGYPT very dark → 1911 Amer. dial.
► DARK AS NEWGATE KNOCKER very dark indeed → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DARK AS THE INSIDE OF A COW exceptionally dark → 1871 US sl.
► DARK AS THREE FEET UP A BULL’S ASS completely dark → 1984 Amer. dial.
► DARKER THAN THE INSIDE OF A BLACK COW’S ASS exceptionally dark → 1964 US sl.
► DARKFUL full of darkness, dark → a1050
► DARKLIN ► DARKLING dark, gloomy; happening in the dark → a1763
► DARKLY dark, gloomy → 1821 Eng. dial.
► DARKSOME 1. somewhat dark or gloomy → 1530
2. somewhat dark in shade or colour → 1615
► DARK-WISE rather dark → 1896 Sc.
► DAUK dark, murky → 1804 Sc. obs.
► DAVE CLARK dark → 2004 UK rhyming sl.
► DAYLESS dark; devoid of the light of day → 1816
► DECEMBERLY resembling December in darkness and dreariness → 1765 obs.
► DERN dark, sombre, solitary, wild, drear → 1488 arch.
► DIMITY dark, dusk → 1884 Eng. dial.
► DIMPSY dark, dim → 1892 Eng. dial.
► DUNGEONOUS resembling a dungeon; dark, gloomy, comfortless → 1908
► DUNNY dark, dusky → 1529
► EBON dark, black, sombre; of the colour of ebony → 1607 obs.
► EBONINE dark, sombre → 1881
► ELEELE dark; black → 1938 Hawaii
► FULIGINOUS murky, dark; obscure; dull; also, melancholy, mournful → 1646
► FUSCESCENT passing into a dark or dusky hue; brownish; approaching darkish brown in colour → 1881
► FUSCOUS of a dark or sombre hue; dusky, swarthy → 1671
► GLUMMY dark, gloomy, dismal for want of light → 1580 obs.
► HEAVISOME dark, gloomy; dull; of heavy mood, doleful, sad, dejected → 1435 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► ILLUMINOUS dark, without light, non-luminous, opaque → 1656
► MIRK dark, gloomy, obscure, dusky → 1671 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
► MIRK-DIM dark, gloomy → 1896 Sc.  
► MIRKNING darkening, growing dark → 1903 Sc. (Bk.)
► MIRKSOME somewhat dark → 1892 Sc.  
► MOKE dark, hazy → 19C Eng. dial.
► MUNGY dark, gloomy → 1632 obs.
► MURK 1. dark, gloomy, deficient in light → 1000 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
2. dark in colour → 1325 Sc.
► MURKFUL full of darkness → 1400 obs.
► MURKISH somewhat dark → 1869
► MURKSOME dark, obscure, gloomy → 1590 Sc.
► NOAH’S ARK dark → 2001 UK rhyming sl.
► OBFUSCATE darkened, obscured → 1531 obs.
► OBFUSCOUS dark in colour or aspect; dusky → 1822-34
► OBNUBILATE darkened or covered as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured → 1560 obs.
► OBSCURATE darkened; obscured → 1471 obs.
► OBSCURATIVE tending to render dark or obscure → 1664 obs.
► OBSCUROUS dark, gloomy, obscure → 1491 obs.
► OBUMBRATE darkened, overshadowed → 1513 obs.
► OBUMBRATORY having the quality of darkening → 1799
► OFFUSC dark, dusky → 1849 obs.
► OFFUSCATE darkened, obscured → 1603
► OPACOUS darkened, not illuminated, obscure → 1621-3 obs.
► OPAQUE darkened, not illuminated, obscure → c1420 obs.
► SIGHTLESS dark, invisible, unseen; impenetrable by vision → 1589
► SMUTTY of the colour of smut; dusky; dark → 1648
► STYGIAN black as the river Styx; dark or gloomy as the region of the Styx → 1602
► SULLIED made dark or gloomy → c1600 obs.
► TARKY dark → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► TENEBRICOSE full of darkness; very dark, obscure; gloomy → 1730-6
► TENEBRIFICOUS causing or producing darkness → 1714 obs.
► TENEBROUS full of darkness, dark → c1420
► THARK dark → 1682 Eng. dial. obs.
► THARKY dark, dusky → 1691 Eng. dial. obs.
► THARRY dark → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► THESTER dark, obscure → a900 obs.
► THURCK dark → 1682 Eng. dial. obs.
► UMBRATILE dark, shaded; said of colour → 1678 obs.
► WAN dark, gloomy, dusky; lacking light or lustre → c1230 chiefly poetic usage,  obs.

ADVERBS
► A-DUSK dark, gloomy; in gloom → 1856
► DARKLING in darkness; in the dark → a1450
► DARKLINGS in the dark → a1656
► DARKLINS in the dark → 1786 Sc.
► DARKLONG in the dark → 1561 obs.
► MIRKLINGS in the dark → 1790 Eng. dial.  
► MURKLINS in the dark → 1568 obs.
► MURKLY darkly; obscurely → 1400

NOUNS
► ACHLUOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of the dark → 1991 (Bk.)
► BENIGHTMENT physical, intellectual, or moral darkness → 1651
► CAN’T SEE the darkness before sunrise and after sunset → 1931 Amer. dial.
► CONGO anything of a very dark colour → 1931 Amer. dial.
► DARKHEDE darkness → 1297 obs.
► DARKSOMENESS darkness, obscurity → 1571
► DERN darkness → a1513 obs.
► DIMMERY a dark, ill-lighted room or passage → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DUNGEON a dark or squalid room, building, etc. likened to a prison dungeon → 1782
► FULIGINOSITY a being sooty; sooty matter; also, blackness, darkness → 1662
► FUSCATION a darkening; obscurity → 1656 obs.
► FUSCITY darkness, dimness → 1727 obs.
► GLUMMERIN a darkening → 1902 Amer. dial.
► GOOD DARK real darkness rather than twilight or dusky dark; as dark as it will get → 1929 Amer. dial.
► MIRK darkness, gloom; the close of the day, night → 1785 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
► MIRKIN ► MIRKINS darkness, nightfall → 1903 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MIRKNESS darkness → 1785 Sc.  
► MURK darkness, gloom → 1000 chiefly Sc.
► MURKINESS darkness, obscurity, gloom → 1425
► MURKNESS intense darkness; darkness caused by fog, smoke, etc. → 1325 chiefly Sc.
► MURK NIGHT the darkest part of the night → 1300 chiefly Sc. & poetic usage
► NYCTOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of darkness or night → 1991 (Bk.)
► OBFUSCATION a darkening, obscuration → 1608
► OBFUSCITY a darkening, obscuration → 1832
► OBNUBILATION a darkening, the fact of being darkened as with a cloud; obscuration → 1610
► OBTENEBRATION a darkening; the act of overshadowing or the condition of being overshadowed → 1626 
► OFFUSCATION a darkening, obscuration → 1502
► OWL-LIGHT the dark, the cloud of the night → 1599
► SCOTOPHOBIA an irrational fear or dislike of the dark → 1844
► SOOT blackness, darkness → 1789
► THESTER darkness → c897 obs.

VERBS
► BECLOUD to darken, to hide; to make obscure → 1619
► BENIGHT to darken, to cloud; to involve in darkness → a1631
► COME DARK OVER to become dark → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAMMER to make dark or dim → 1610 obs.
► DARK to grow dark; to darken; to cloud with something evil → c1340 obs.
► DARKEN IN to grow dark or dusk in the evening → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DARKLE 1. to grow dark or dusk; to look dark → 1823
2. to render dark or obscure → 1884
► DUN to become dark or dim; to become dull in colour to lose colour, to fade → a1400 obs.
► MIRK to darken, overcast → 1691 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
► MIRKEN to become dark and gloomy; to grow murky → 1400 Sc.
► MURK 1. to darken, to grow dark → 1330
2. to blacken, to smudge, to besmirch; to make dark or obscure → 1425
► OBFUSCATE to darken, to obscure (physically); to deprive of light or brightness; to make dark or dusky → 1650
► OBFUSK to darken, to obscure (physically); to deprive of light or brightness; to make dark or dusky → 1490 obs.
► OBNUBILATE to darken, to dim, to cover, or hide with or as with a cloud; to overcloud; to obscure → 1583
► OBTENEBRATE to darken, to shade, to overshadow; to cast a shadow over → 1611 
► OBTENEBRIZE to darken, to shade, to overshadow; to cast a shadow over → 1653 obs.
► OBUMBRATE to darken, to shade, to overshadow; to obscure → 1526
► OFFUSCATE to darken, to obscure (physically); to deprive of light or brightness; to make dark or dusky → 1656
► OFFUSQUE to darken, to obscure → a1751 obs.
► PINK IN to grow dark; said of the day → 1939 Amer. dial.
► SWERK to be or become dark; to become gloomy, troubled, or sad → 1000 obs.
► THESTER to become dark, to grow dim; to make dark → a900 obs.
► TO-DARKEN to darken greatly → 1382 obs.
► WAN to become dark, discoloured, or livid → c1000 obs.