Dark Definition
- In secret:
high-level decisions made in the dark.
- In a state of ignorance; uninformed:
kept me in the dark about their plans.
- in a place with no light
- uninformed; ignorant
- to keep secret or hidden
Other Word Forms of Dark
Noun
Adjective
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Dark
- in the dark
- in the dark
- keep dark
Origin of Dark
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From Middle English derk, from Old English deorc (“dark, obscure, gloomy, without light, dreadful, horrible, sad, cheerless, sinister, wicked”), from Proto-Germanic *derkaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg- (“dim, dull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer- (“dull, dirty”). Cognate with Middle High German derken, terken (“to darken, sully”), Albanian terr (“darkness”) and Persian تاريك (tārīk, “dark”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English derk from Old English deorc
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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