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Definition of dark : 1. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
2. Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
3. Deprived of sight; blind.
4. Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
5. Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light- colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
6. Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
7. Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.
8. Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
9. showing a brooding ill humor; " a dark scowl"; " the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; " a glum, hopeless shrug"; " he sat in moody silence"; " a morose and unsociable manner"; " a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; " a sour temper"; " a sullen crowd"
10. The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
11. To darken to obscure.

Synonyms:

off-key, gentle, ablaze, naughty, tincture, foreboding, trace, biased, Stygian, darksome, smutty, fair-haired, begrimed, comfortless, hope, unlettered, drear, ghastly, subdued, uneducated, risque, sinfulness, deplorable, complexioned, cheerless, shadower, fuliginous, olive-drab, opprobrious, pitiful, rep, illiterate, minatory, blackish, depressive, slanted, forlorn, dimness, bluish, no-good, on, dreich, unlighted, disastrous, bleached, nighted, albino, dogged, sombre, unforgiving, lonely, black-a-vised, foggy, raunchy, darkness, unrighteous, fatalistic, apart, happy, mordant, uncomprehensible, unlawful, sordid, cimmerian, heavy, solemn, vileness, enigmatic, pitch-black, inactive, inconsolable, wretched, grubby, ominous, sliminess, pertinacious, minacious, miserable, pessimistic, turned, auburn, macabre, aristocratic, bright, wicked, unnoticeable, patrician, nonliterate, contraband, brown, colorful, deviant, ugliness, gray, crepuscular, nefarious, light-tight, sorry, tight-mouthed, baby-blue, secret, desolate, mysterious, warn, occult, bronzed, dire, amoral, menacing, misty, temperamental, colors, fair, Negro, dark-skinned, arcane, ill-natured, phantom, down in the mouth, unsung, African, darkling, unlearned, unrelenting, double-edged, unyielding, blue, iniquity, darkish, distressing, racy, amber, shabbiness, sad, dyed, disgraceful, alabaster, nefariousness, down, personal, villainous, Indian, avocado, unenlightened, chill, apparition, dispiriting, unfairness, caliginous, analphabetic, sinful, obscureness, lowery, bug-eyed, threatening, depressed, rayless, brooding, bleak, no-count, lousiness, immorality, inexorable, muddied, morbid, complected, bad, opposite, depressing, swarthiness, sunless, vicious, lamentable, tenebrious, benighted, untaught, unappeasable, aristocratical, smuggled, incomprehensible, go up, regretful, persistent, relentless, bold, tail, low-spirited, grimy, simple, brash, unsavory, drab, coloured, despairing, profane, wickedness, dull, murkiness, loathsomeness, no-account, closemouthed, Acherontic, isolated, tenebrific, indistinct, close, grungy, beatific, equivocal, light, unethical, cold, ignominious, brunet, reticent, upsetting, glooming, in, beige, uninstructed, gruesome, plutonian, acting, godforsaken, shadow, flaxen, untutored, sinister, clouded, grisly, downcast, blasphemous, gamy, heartbreaking, dramatic, juicy, gloomful, wrong, repulsiveness, off, absent, negative, one-sided, overcast, injustice, broken, gross, amethyst, darkening, unknown, evil, lightproof, low, blue-blooded, Delphic, non-white, gamey, method acting, black-market, chintzy, bloodless, uncommunicative, unconsolable, painful, azure, unlit, ambiguous, tan, darkly, fateful, saturnine, strange, sin, duskiness, brunette, pitch-dark, pitchy, dirty, blackened, phantasma, rude, joyless, shameful, spicy, sick, inglorious, perverted, mystic, swart, vile, tenacious, vestige, private, sepulchral, bootleg, lonesome, stern, tenebrous, appealing, blond, deep, colored, sober, unhappy, puritanical, puritanic, uncertain, anonymous, unilluminated, funereal, cryptic, twilit, elegiac, obscurity, rotten, lowering, unpropitious, baleful, rancid, aphotic, uncheerful, calamitous, color, bistered, terrible, fatal, forbidding, color-coded, tragic, disconsolate, unschooled, inscrutable, good-for-nothing, nebulous, good-for-naught, clean, phantasm, lugubrious, curious, blueish, dimmed, elliptical, unread, downhearted, dispirited, faint, hopeless, acheronian, muddy, meritless, fantasm, false

gloom, shade, the dark, murk, blackness

hidden, concealed, unapparent, indiscernible, obscured, invisible, covert, latent, imperceptible, camouflaged, unobservable

glowering, contrary, fretful, glum, frowning, sullen, scowling, cantankerous, unfriendly, sulky, gloomy, ungenial, surly, obstinate, irascible, crabby, moody, uncooperative, unsociable, beetle-browed, cynical, long-faced, grim, noncooperative, moping, grouchy, hostile, cross, mean, dissociable, dejected, malevolent, sour, petulant, melancholy, broody, grumpy, morose, dour

ignorant, uncultivated

inky, dreary, somber, shady, shadowy, darkened, murky, cloudy, dusky, lightless, swarthy, shaded, obscure, dim, umbrageous, silhouetted, sooty, dismal

dingy, charcoal, ebony, midnight, sable, black

impenetrable, unclear, vague, opaque, hazy

immoral, corrupt, iniquitous

night, dusk, sundown, nighttime, twilight, sunset, evening, eventide, vesper

Usage examples:

• It won't be dark for an hour yet." - "Lavender and Old Lace", Myrtle Reed.
• I wonder what makes Harry so afraid of the dark? - "Virginia", Ellen Glasgow.
• Then the two talked " dark." - "Harley Greenoak's Charge", Bertram Mitford.