Dark vs Doom - What's the difference?
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Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
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#Deprived of sight; blind.
#*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
#*:He was, I think, at this time quite dark , and so had been for some years.
(lb) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
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*:If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon.
Hidden, secret, obscure.
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*:Meantime we shall express our darker purpose
#Not clear to the understanding; not easily through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
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#*:What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
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#*:the dark problems of existence
# Having racing capability not widely known.
Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Left him at large to his own dark designs.
Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
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*:A deep melancholy took possession of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
*(Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
*:There is, in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
*Sir (1614-1669)
*:The age wherein he lived was dark , but he / Could not want light who taught the world to see.
*(Arthur Hallam) (1811-1833)
*:The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediaeval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.
With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction presented in narrative form or a portion of either.
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A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
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(uncountable) Nightfall.
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
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Destiny, especially terrible.
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An ill fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
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A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
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(countable, historical) A law.
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(countable, historical) A judgment or decision.
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(countable, historical) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
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Death.
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(sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or , an artistic representation of it.
To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
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To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
(obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
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(archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
As an adjective dark
is having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.As a noun dark
is a complete or (more often) partial absence of light.As a proper noun doom is
(video games|trademark) a popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the father of the genre.dark
English
Adjective
(er)Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark , look for specks of light in the villages.}}
Synonyms
* (relative lack of light) dim, gloomy, see also * (sinister or secret) hidden, secret, sinister, see also * (without morals) malign, sinister, see also * (of colour) deep, see also * (conducive to hopelessness) hopeless, negative, pessimistic * (lacking progress) unenlightenedAntonyms
* (relative lack of light) bright, light, lit * (of colour) bright, light, paleDerived terms
* dark energy * dark flow * dark-haired * dark horse * dark matter * dark-skinnedNoun
(en-noun)- Here stood he in the dark , his sharp sword out.
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Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark , look for specks of light in the villages.}}
- Look, what you do, you do it still i' th' dark .
- Till we perceive by our own understandings, we are as much in the dark , and as void of knowledge, as before.
- The lights may serve for a repose to the darks', and the ' darks to the lights.
Derived terms
* after dark * all cats are gray in the dark * at dark * bedarken * before dark * Dark Ages * dark blue * dark brown * dark chocolate * dark comedy * Dark Continent * dark current * dark elves * darken * dark energy * darkey * dark fiber * darkfield * dark field * dark figure * darkful * dark glasses * dark horse * dark house * darkish * dark lantern * darkle * dark matter * dark meat * dark nebula * darkness * dark reaction * dark red * darkroom * dark-room * dark room * dark-skinned * dark side * darksome * dark space * dark star * darky * endark * oh dark thirty * pitch-dark * shot in the dark * whistle in the darkSee also
* black * shadowStatistics
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* 1000 English basic words ----doom
English
Noun
- Homely household task shall be her doom .
- And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom .
- The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
- They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
- This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
Derived terms
* doom-and-gloomer, gloom-and-doomer * doomer * doomful * doomless * doomlike * doom metal * doomsday * doomsayer * doomster * doomy * entropic doom * foredoom * gloom and doom * predoomAntonyms
* (ill fate) fortuneVerb
(en verb)- a criminal doomed to death
- Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
- A man of genius doomed to struggle with difficulties.
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- Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?