Word Finder - darkest

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Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.

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The room was too dark for reading.

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(of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.

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my sister's hair is darker than mine;  her skin grew dark with a suntan

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Hidden, secret, obscure.

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Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.

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a dark villain;  a dark deed

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Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.

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the Great Depression was a dark time;  the film was a dark psychological thriller

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Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.

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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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The ending of this book is rather dark.

The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

She knew well about the darkest hour — she'd been there.

The commercial grades are numerous, ranging by letters from A, the darkest, to N, extra pale, - superior to which are W, "window glass," and WW, "water white" varieties, the latter having about three times the value of the common qualities.

She appealed to him not to sacrifice for her the independence of his life, nor did she finally yield to the arrangement without the darkest forebodings, only too soon to be realized.

In the daytime "the gorged females rest motionless on the walls and ceilings of rooms, choosing always the darkest situations for this purpose" (Austen).

This was the darkest period of the annals of the Spanish revolution of 1873-1874.

But the darkest period was succeeded by the dawn of a reformation; travelling logicians were willing to maintain these against all the world; whilst here and there ascetics strove to raise themselves above the gods, and hermits earnestly sought for some satisfactory solution of the mysteries of life.

The 7th century was the darkest of all the dark ages, and England is particularly fortunate in possessing the Ecclcsiastica historia of Bede, which, though its author was primarily interested in things religious, yet contains a copious chronicle of things secular.

The darkest of the least coarse skins are worth the most.

Apply the darkest shade in the crease and blend.

It's how you handle yourself in your darkest hour.

Their colour varies from the Arab hue to black, and curiously enough the most regular features are to be found among the darkest groups.

Kali, on the other hand, the most terrible of the goddess's forms, has a special service performed to her, at the Kali-puja, during the darkest night of the succeeding month; when she is represented as a naked black woman, four-armed, wearing a garland of heads of giants slain by her, and a string of skulls round her neck, dancing on the breast of her husband (Mahakala), with gaping mouth and protruding tongue; and when she has to be propitiated by the slaughter of goats, sheep and buffaloes.

One of the darkest episodes of German history has been transformed into romantic melodrama.

They had worked through what she thought at the time was her darkest hour.

Of Metternich, Stadion's successor, he had at the outset no high opinion, and it was not till 1812 that there sprang up between the two men the close relations that were to ripen into life-long friendship. But when Gentz returned to Vienna as Metternich's adviser and henchman, he was no longer the fiery patriot who had sympathized and corresponded with Stein in the darkest days of German depression and in fiery periods called upon all Europe to free itself from foreign rule.

Booth's scheme for Social Relief, described in In Darkest England, and the Way Out (1890), attracted wide-spread interest, and was started with subscriptions amounting to over £ioo,000.

The emigration department, although a development of the Darkest England Scheme, has no connexion with the rescue work; in 1907 the passage money received amounted to £85,014, and in 1909 to £38,179.

The fullest and darkest skins of each kind are the most valuable, and, in cases of bluish grey or white, the fuller, clearer and brighter are the more expensive.

After being unhaired the darkest wools are the most valuable, although many people prefer the bright, lighter brown tones.

Taking into consideration the size, it is not so costly as the natural black fox, or the darkest Russian sable, which is now the most expensive of all.

As regards his execution of the former part of his duties, it is sufficient to say that he preserved his equanimity undisturbed in the darkest hours of peril, and that the strict impartiality of his conduct incurred alternate praise and blame from the fanatics on either side.

The penumbra remains the penumbra, but it is now darkest where before it was brightest, and vice versa.

Such art as continued was almost wholly religious; for in the wilderness of the times the churches formed oases of comparative prosperity and peace, and, even in the darkest times, wherever such oases existed there the seeds of art took root.

The progress made through even this darkest age may be measured by the difference between the army of Rollo and that which William the Conqueror gathered for the invasion of England.

The blind kings gradual revelation, under horrible torture, of the place of concealment of his several jewels and treasures, and his deportation and death (of the injuries thus received, at Damghan, en route to Mazandaran), must be classed among the darkest records of Oriental history.

It is probable that this charge grew out of the fierce persecution which was carried on by Gaiseric and his son against the Catholic Christians, and which is the darkest stain on their characters.

It must be added, however, that even in the darkest times of feudal sway, economic forces provided some protection for the peasants who had lost the means of appealing to legal remedies.

In the darkest days of WWII sea cadets from units around the country volunteered to plug the gap in the thin blue line.

In 1909 the value of the property held under the Darkest England Scheme in the United Kingdom was returned at £329,645, and the income of the central fund at £50,594.

Salomon Reinach, guided by the analogy of similar practices among the aborigines of Australia, and noticing that these primitive pictures represent none but animals that formed the staple food of the age and place, and that they are usually found in the deepest and darkest recesses of the caves where they could only be drawn and seen by torchlight, has argued that they were not intended for artistic gratification (a late motive in human art), but were magical representations destined to influence and perhaps attract the hunter's quarry.

But it is darkest just before the dawn; and Kant, the Copernicus of philosophy, had really altered the aspects of the doctrine of ideas.

Contained upon it are some of Low's accessible songs to date, combined with some of the darkest atmospherics they've produced.

Alan Wake, the game's protagonist, is a bestselling horror writer, who writes a novel about his darkest nightmares.

I was 'the Pygmy in deepest darkest Africa ' only I lived in Basingstoke.

Three fat candles shimmered a warm glow, but barely penetrated the darkest recesses of the tiny croft kitchen.

Days were grouped according to the intensity of colouring of ozone papers, o representing no visible effect, and 14 the darkest colour reached.

If Clive's sword conquered the Indian empire, it was the brain of Hastings that planned the system of civil administration, and his genius that saved the empire in its darkest hour.

While Arab learning flourished during the darkest ages of European ignorance, the last of the Arab geographers lived to see the dawn of the great period of the European awakening.

The ghastly roll of infantile mortality was quickly purged of its darkest features (Ballard and others); aided by bacteriology, sanitary measures attained some considerable degree of exactness; public medicine gained such an ascendancy that special training and diplomas were offered at universities; and in 1875 a consolidated act was passed for the United Kingdom establishing medical officers of health, and responsible lay sanitary authorities, with no inconsiderable powers of enforcing the means of public health in rural, urban, port and other jurisdictions, with summary methods of procedure.

I was 'the pygmy in deepest darkest Africa ' only I lived in Basingstoke.

Worse than confirming my darkest thoughts, it told me that my cynical pessimism is as starry-eyed idealism to the reality.

So from darkest Prague, I wish you well... and hope you survive the ordeal of having to watch all my films.

Why should I fear the darkest hour, Or tremble at the tempter 's power?

If you are going to paint the walls two colors, or more, it is generally more visually appealing to keep the lower part of the walls the darkest color and the highest part of the walls the lightest color.

It is usually best to start with the lightest color first and work your way to the darkest color.

Pull the color from the wood work or from the darkest tone of the granite counter for understated elegance.

This fixture can give you much needed lighting in what is typically one of the darkest areas in your home.

Concentrate the darkest color at the lashes, then apply a medium shade to the lid, extending slightly above the crease.

Apply the darkest color along the lower lashes, then blend that out with the medium shade along the edges.