dark

/dɑrk/

意味: 暗い

例文: Chair-kun vanished mysteriously into the dark.
　　  チェア君は暗闇へと神秘的に姿を消した。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: dark night(暗い夜), dark chocolate(ダークチョコレート), dark room(暗い部屋)

定義: 暗い、光が少ない、または全くない状態を指します。色が黒に近いことも意味します。気分や雰囲気が重く、悲しい感じを表すこともあります。

darkは約9,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: absence of light or illumination
Noun: absence of moral or spiritual values
Noun: an unilluminated area
Noun: the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Noun: an unenlightened state
Adjective: devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
Adjective: (used of color) having a dark hue
Adjective: brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
Adjective: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; ; ; ; ; ; ; -Thomas Hardy
Adjective: secret
Adjective: showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; – Bruce Bliven
Adjective: lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
Adjective: marked by difficulty of style or expression
Adjective: causing dejection
Adjective: having skin rich in melanin pigments
Adjective: not giving performances; closed

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Adjective

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The room became dark after the lights went out.(電気が消えて部屋は暗くなった。)
She wore a dark coat on the cold night.(彼女は寒い夜に暗いコートを着ていた。)
His dark eyes showed deep emotion.(彼の暗い目は深い感情を表していた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the powers of darkness
Noun: he moved off into the darkness
Noun: he was in the dark concerning their intentions
Noun: his lectures dispelled the darkness
Adjective: sitting in a dark corner
Adjective: a dark day
Adjective: dark shadows
Adjective: dark as the inside of a black cat
Adjective: dark green
Adjective: dark glasses
Adjective: dark colors like wine red or navy blue
Adjective: dark eyes
Adjective: black deeds
Adjective: a black lie
Adjective: his black heart has concocted yet another black deed
Adjective: Darth Vader of the dark side
Adjective: a dark purpose
Adjective: dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
Adjective: the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him
Adjective: keep it dark
Adjective: a dark scowl
Adjective: the proverbially dour New England Puritan
Adjective: a glum, hopeless shrug
Adjective: he sat in moody silence
Adjective: a morose and unsociable manner
Adjective: a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius
Adjective: a sour temper
Adjective: a sullen crowd
Adjective: this benighted country
Adjective: benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
Adjective: the dark ages
Adjective: a dark age in the history of education
Adjective: much that was dark is now quite clear to me
Adjective: those who do not appreciate Kafka’s work say his style is obscure
Adjective: a blue day
Adjective: the dark days of the war
Adjective: a week of rainy depressing weather
Adjective: a disconsolate winter landscape
Adjective: the first dismal dispiriting days of November
Adjective: a dark gloomy day
Adjective: grim rainy weather
Adjective: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Adjective: dark-skinned peoples
Adjective: the theater is dark on Mondays

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): benighted, black, blue, colored, coloured, dark, dark-skinned, darkness, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dour, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, iniquity, moody, morose, night, nighttime, non-white, obscure, saturnine, shadow, sinister, sorry, sour, sullen, wickedness

Antonyms(反意語): day, light

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): condition, illumination, scene, time period, unenlightenment

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absolution, air alert, anchorage, astigmatism, atmosphere, atonicity, automation, bimester, bimillennium, bout, bronze age, brutalization, calendar day, calendar month, celibacy, century, circumstance, climate, clotting time, comfort, condemnation, curvature, danger, dark, darkness, dawn, day, decade, decline, deification, despair, difficulty, discomfort, dishabille, disorderliness, diversification, diversity, dog days, dominance, downtime, drought, dryness, duration, economic condition, elapsed time, emptiness, encapsulation, enlistment, ennoblement, environmental condition, era, eve, evening, exoneration, eye condition, facilitation, festival, field day, field of honor, financial condition, flower, fortnight, frizz, fruition, fullness, generation, golden age, great year, guilt, hairlessness, half life, half-century, health, homelessness, honeymoon, hopefulness, hospitalization, hour, hours, hyalinization, identification, immunity, impaction, impropriety, improvement, impurity, incubation period, indian summer, indiction, iniquity, innocence, ionization, iron age, irradiation, lactation, lactosuria, laxness, leakiness, lease, life, light, long run, long time, lubrication, lustrum, malady, mechanization, mid-april, mid-august, mid-december, mid-february, mid-january, mid-july, mid-june, mid-march, mid-may, mid-november, mid-october, mid-september, midweek, midwinter, millennium, mode, morning, motivation, multistage, mummification, mutism, nakedness, need, niche, night, noise conditions, nomination, normality, novitiate, occupation, olympiad, orderliness, overtime, participation, past, peacetime, phase, phase of the moon, physical condition, place, polarization, prehistory, prepossession, preservation, prognathism, prohibition, protuberance, psychological state, puerperium, purity, quadrennium, quarter, quarter-century, question time, quinquennium, rainy day, real time, regularization, regulation time, reign, reinstatement, repair, run, running time, rustication, rustiness, safety, sanitary condition, saturation, scandalization, school, season, semester, serration, shelf life, silence, silly season, silver age, situation, ski conditions, sleep, soundness, stage, standardization, stigmatism, study hall, submission, subservience, susceptibility, tension, term, tide, tilth, time, time frame, time limit, time of life, time off, times, travel time, trial period, trimester, unsoundness, unsusceptibility, uptime, urbanization, usance, vacuolization, venue, virginity, wartime, watch, way, week, weekend, wetness, window, work time, year, youth

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): blackout, foulness, night, semidarkness, total darkness, wedding night, weeknight

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: colored, dark, darkness, dreariness, glumness, moodiness, moroseness, nightly, obscureness, obscurity, shadow, sourness, sullenness, wicked

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:

comparative-er

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: sadness