Tối, tối tăm, tối mò; mù mịt, u ám

it is getting dark

trời bắt đầu tối

a dark moonless night

một đêm tối trời không trăng sao

a dark sky

bầu trời u ám

Ngăm ngăm đen, đen huyền

a dark skin

da ngăm đen

dark eyes

mắt huyền

Thẫm sẫm (màu)

Mờ mịt, mơ hồ, không rõ ràng, không minh bạch

a dark future

tương lai mờ mịt

Tối tăm, dốt nát, ngu dốt

in the dark ignorance

trong sự ngu dốt tối tăm tột bậc

Bí mật, kín đáo, không ai hay biết gì, không cho ai biết điều gì

Buồn rầu, chán nản, bi quan

to look on the dark side of the thing

bi quan

Đen tối, ám muội; ghê tởm, nham hiểm, cay độc

dark thoughts

ý nghĩ đen tối

a dark crime

tội ác ghê tởm

dark humour

tính hóm hỉnh cay độc

Bóng tối, chỗ tối; lúc đêm tối, lúc trời tối

at dark

lúc đêm tối, lúc tối trời

before dark

lúc tối trời, lúc màn đêm buông xuống

(nghệ thuật) chỗ tối; màu tối (trên một bức hoạ)

the lights and darks of a picture

chỗ sáng và chỗ tối của một bức hoạ

Sự tối tăm, sự ngu dốt; sự không biết gì

to be in the dark about someone's intentions

không biết về ý định của ai

to keep somebody in the dark

giữ bí mật đối với ai, không cho ai biết điều gì

to live in the dark

sống trong cảnh tối tăm ngu dốt

đậm

màu đen

sẫm màu

nghỉ

Unlit, unlighted, unilluminated, ill-lighted, ill-lit,sunless; black, Stygian, pitch-dark, inky, jet-black: Wecowered in a recess in the dark cave.

Dim, murky, tenebrous,shady, shadowy: I could scarcely see ahead of me in the darkforest.

Gloomy, dismal, dreary, dull, drab, subfuscous,subfusc, bleak, cheerless, mournful, dour, pessimistic, sombre,doleful, joyless, grim, sad, melancholy, sorrowful: Why do youalways look at the dark side of things?

Evil, wicked, vile,base, foul, iniquitous, nefarious, black-hearted, villainous,sinister, satanic, devilish, hellish: Nostradamus predictedthat dark forces would overrun the world.

Murky, overcast,cloudy, threatening, black, dusky, louring or lowering; foggy,misty; US glowering: Another dark day on the moor and I thoughtI'd go mad.

Mysterious, deep, profound, incomprehensible,enigmatic, puzzling, impenetrable, unfathomable, abstruse,recondite, arcane, obscure: She took her dark secret to thegrave.

Hidden, concealed, secret, occult, mystic(al),cryptic: The true reason for his leaving was always kept darkin the family.

Brunette; black, swarthy, brown; (sun)tanned,Old-fashioned swart: One is fair with dark hair, the other hasdark skin.

Ignorant, unenlightened, benighted: Our culturepassed through a dark phase before the Renaissance.

N.

Night, night-time, nightfall: We waited till dark tomake good our escape.

Darkness, blackness, gloom,gloominess, murk, murkiness: At fifty, isn't he a bit old to beafraid of the dark?

Obscurity, ignorance: She was alwayskept in the dark about his true identity.

Adj.

With little or no light.

Of a deep orsombre colour.

(of a person) with deep brown or black hair,complexion, or skin.

Gloomy, depressing, dismal (darkthoughts).

Evil, sinister (dark deeds).

Sullen, angry (adark mood).

Remote, secret, mysterious, little-known (thedark and distant past; keep it dark).

Ignorant,unenlightened.

N.

Absence of light.

Nightfall (don't goout after dark).

A lack of knowledge.

A dark area orcolour, esp. in painting (the skilled use of lights and darks).

Any period ofsupposed unenlightenment. the Dark Continent a name for Africa,esp. when little known to Europeans. dark glasses spectacleswith dark-tinted lenses. dark horse a little-known person whois unexpectedly successful or prominent. dark star an invisiblestar known to exist from reception of physical data other thanlight. in the dark lacking information.

Darkish adj. darklyadv. darkness n. darksome poet. adj. [OE deorc prob. f. Gmc]