Darkest vs Darest - 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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* (1800-1859)
*: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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* Shakespeare
* John Locke
(uncountable) Nightfall.
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
* Dryden
(archaic) (dare)
To have enough courage (to do something).
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
* The Century
To terrify; to daunt.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
A challenge to prove courage.
The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
* Shakespeare
defiance; challenge
* Chapman
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
(obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear.
*, Bk.XX, ch.xix:
*:‘Sir, here bene knyghtes com of kyngis blod that woll nat longe droupe and dare within thys wallys.’
A small fish, the dace.
* 1766 , Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing
As an adjective darkest
is (dark).As a conjunction darest is
if, in case of.darkest
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*dark
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(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 ----darest
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* * * * * *dare
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(wikipedia dare)Etymology 1
From (etyl) durran, from (etyl) .Verb
- I wouldn't dare argue with my boss.
- The fellow dares not deceive me.
- Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.
- I dare you to kiss that girl.
- Will you dare death to reach your goal?
- To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
- For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, / Would dare a woman.
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Usage notes
* Dare is a semimodal verb. The speaker can choose whether to use the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go" and "I dare not go" are both correct. Similarly "Dare you go?" and "Do you dare (to) go?" are both correct. * In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is usually "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go." * Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't". * The expression dare say'', used almost exclusively in the first-person singular and in the present tense, means "think probable". It is also spelt ''daresay . * Historically, the simple past of dare was durst. In the 1830s, it was overtaken by dared, which has been markedly more common ever since.Derived terms
* daredevil * daren't * daresay * daresn'tNoun
(en noun)- It lends a lustre / A large dare to our great enterprise.
- Childish, unworthy dares / Are not enought to part our powers.
- Sextus Pompeius / Hath given the dare to Caesar.
Etymology 2
(etyl) darian.Verb
(dar)Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.