darkness

US pronunciation

American sounddarkness

darkness

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

dar - kness -> darkness

Myanmar meaning

(n [U]) အမှောင်။ အမှောင်ထု။

Full entry

dark / dɑ:k / adj (-er, -est )

၁။ မှောင်မိုက်သော။ မှောင်မည်းသော။ အလင်းရောင်မရှိသော။
a dark room / street ❍ It's rather dark in here—can we have the light on? ❍ It's too dark to play outside.
၂။ (က) မည်းသော၊ ရင့်သော (အရောင်)။
dark green/grey/red ❍ a dark suit.
(ခ) နက်သော (ဆံပင်၊ မျက်စိ)။
(ဂ) ညိုသော၊ မည်းသော (အသားရောင်)။
a dark complexion.
(ဃ) ဆံပင်နက်၊ မျက်လုံးနက်နှင့် အသားညိုမောင်း သော။ ညိုချော။
a tall, dark, handsome stranger. Compare LIGHT adj
၃။ လျှို့ဝှက်ဖုံးကွယ်ထားသော။
a dark secret/mystery ❍ I'm thinking of leaving the company but keep it dark—I don't want anyone else to know.
၄။ မကောင်းသော။ စိတ်ဓာတ်ကျဖွယ်ဖြစ်သော။ မျှော်လင့်ချက်ကင်းသော။
dark predictions about the future ❍ Don't always look on the dark side of things.
၅။ ယုတ်မာသော။ ဆိုးသော။
dark powers/influence. ❍ a book which dwells on the darker side of the emperor's nature.
n the dark [sing] အမှောင်။ မှောင်။
All the lights went out and we were left in the dark. ❍ Are you afraid of the dark? Compare LIGHT n
❏ before/after dark [IDM] မမှောင်ခင်။ နေမဝင်ခင်။ မှောင်လျှင်(ရင်)။ နေဝင်လျှင်(ရင်)။ Try to get home before dark. ❍ I'm afraid to go out after dark in the city.
❏ the Dark Ages n [pl] အမှောင်ခေတ်။ ဥရောပသမိုင်းတွင် ရောမအင်ပါယာအဆုံးနှင့် ၁၀ ရာစုအေဒီ အကြားကာလ။
❏ dark glasses n [pl] နေကာမျက်မှန်။
❏ a dark horse [IDM] မိမိဘဝ ဇာတ်မြှုပ်ဖုံးဝှက်ထားသူ။ မိမိအစွမ်းအစကို လျှိုထားသူ။
He's a dark horse if ever there was one!
❏ darkly adv
၁။ ထိတ်လန့်စဖွယ်။
She hinted darkly at strange events.
၂။ စိုးရိမ်စွာ။ စိတ်ပျက်လက်ပျက်။
talk darkly of the possibility of job losses.
❏ darkness n [U] အမှောင်။ အမှောင်ထု။
The room was suddenly plunged into complete darkness. ❍ during the hours of darkness (ie at night).
❏ in the dark (about sth) [IDM] ဘာမျှမသိ။ လုံးဝမသိ။
We were kept completely in the dark about the plan to sell the company.
❏ a leap / shot in the dark [IDM] ရမ်းသန်း(လုပ်၊ ပြော စသည်…)။ မှန်းချ။ မှန်းတုတ်။ ရမ်းတုတ်။
It's hard to know exactly what to do—we'll just have to take a shot in the dark.

More examples

A dark and stormy night
When Maggie woke up, it was still dark.
[completely dark] : By this time it was ten o’clock and completely dark.
[get/grow dark] : When they left, it was already starting to get dark (=become dark at the end of a day).
[go dark] : The room went dark and the cinema screen flickered into life.
He was dressed in a dark suit with a white shirt.
There were dark patches on the walls where water had soaked through.
She glanced up at the dark clouds above the cliffs.
[dark blue/green/red etc] : A dark blue jacket
He was tanned and had dark curly hair.
An attractive dark-haired nurse
He looked up at her, his dark eyes strangely bright.
A tall dark man
I always suspected there was a darker side to his character.
During the darkest days of the war
[someone’s darkest hour] : This was the President’s darkest hour.
In some dark corner of his mind
They would see sources go dark that were previously productive.
All Washington theatres went dark in the wake of the suicide crash on the Pentagon.

Synonyms

dim, shady, shadowy, murky, gloomy, Delphian, abstruse, adumbral, anagogic, angry, aphotic, arcane, atramentous, atrocious, bad, benighted, bistered, black, blackish, blackness, bleak, brown, brunet, brunette, cabalistic, caliginosity, caliginous, cheerless, chestnut, cimmerian, circumlocute, clouded, cloudy, complicated, concealed, concealment, corrupt, crepuscular, cryptic, damnable, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkened, darkness, dead of night, deep, denseness, depressing, dimness, dingy, dismal, dodge, doleful, dour, drab, dreary, dull, dun, dusk, duskiness, dusky, ebon, ebony, enigmatic, esoteric, evening, evil, faint, foggy, forbidding, foreboding, foul, frowning, get around, get out of, give the slip, gloom, glowering, glum, grim, grimy, hair, hellish, hidden, hopeless, horrible, ignorance; mystery, ignorant, ill-lighted, immoral, indistinct, infamous, infernal, inky, inscrutability, intricate, joyless, juke, knotty, lightless, lurid, midnight, misty, morbid, morose, mournful, move to side, move to the side, murk, murkiness, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, nasty, nebulous, nefarious, night, nightfall, nighttime, not known, obfuscous, obscure, obscurity, occult, ominous, opacity, opaque, overcast, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, place, put the move on, puzzling, rayless, recondite, sable, sad, satanic, scowling, seclusion, secrecy, secret, semidarkness, shade, shaded, shaded complexion, shadows, short circuit, short-circuit, sinful, sinister, skip out on, somber, sooty, spooky, stygian, sulky, sullen

Antonyms

apparent, bright, brightness, brilliant, cheerful, cheery, clean, clear, cognizance, day, daybreak, daylight, daytime, distinct, encouraging, enlightening, evident, fair, good, happy, honest, hopeful, illuminated, illumination, intelligence, intelligent, joyful, just, light, lightness, lucid, luminous, manifest, moral, morning, nice, plain, pleased, radiant, revelation, sense, sensibility, shining, smart, sparkling, sunny, understanding, visible, vivacious, vivid