Darkest vs Barkest - What's the difference?
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(dark)
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.
*1603-1606 , (William Shakespeare), (King Lear) , i 1
*: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?
#*1594- , (Richard Hooker),
#*:What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
#*(w) (1819-1885)
#*: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.
* Shakespeare
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* John Locke
(uncountable) Nightfall.
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
* Dryden
(archaic) (bark)
To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
* (rfdate), Tyndale.
* (rfdate), Fuller
To speak sharply.
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The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.
A similar sound made by some other animals.
(figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
* circa 1921 , The Cambridge History of English and American Literature , vol 11:
(countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
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(medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
* 2009 , Julie Reinhardt, She-Smoke: A Backyard Barbecue Book , page 151:
To strip the bark from; to peel.
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
To girdle.
To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
(obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
(poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
* circa 1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116:
* circa 1880 , among the Poems of Emily Dickinson:
(nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
As an adjective darkest
is superlative of dark.As a verb barkest is
archaic second-person singular of bark.darkest
English
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*dark
English
Adjective
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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
*Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----barkest
English
Verb
(head)bark
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) barken, berken, borken, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- The neighbour's dog is always barking .
- The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.
- They bark , and say the Scripture maketh heretics.
- Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. .
- The sergeant barked an order.
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Usage notes
Historically, bork'' existed as a past tense form and ''borken as a past participle, but both forms are now obsolete.Derived terms
* bark up the wrong tree * barking * barking dogs never bite * bebark * dogs bark *Synonyms
* latrate (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) bark, from (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia bark)- Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.
- This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark .
Usage notes
Usually uncountable; bark may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.Synonyms
* (exterior covering of a tree) rindVerb
(en verb)- to bark one’s heel
- bark the roof of a hut
Etymology 3
From (etyl) , from Egyptian b?re .Alternative forms
* barqueNoun
(en noun)- It is the star to every wandering bark
- Whether my bark went down at sea, Whether she met with gales,