Dark vs. Evil — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Dark and Evil
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Definitions
Dark
Lacking or having very little light
A dark corner.
Evil
Evil, in a general sense, is defined by what it is not—the opposite or absence of good. It can be an extremely broad concept, although in everyday usage it is often more narrowly used to talk about profound wickedness.
Dark
Lacking brightness
A dark day.
Evil
Morally bad or wrong; wicked
An evil tyrant.
Dark
Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black
Dark clothing.
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Evil
Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful
The evil effects of a poor diet.
Dark
Served without milk or cream
Dark coffee.
Evil
Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous
Evil omens.
Dark
Being or having a complexion that is not light in color.
Evil
Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous
An evil reputation.
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Dark
Sullen or threatening
A dark scowl.
Evil
Characterized by anger or spite; malicious
An evil temper.
Dark
Characterized by gloom or pessimism; dismal or bleak
A dark day for the economy.
Dark predictions of what lies in store.
Evil
The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.
Dark
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
Evil
That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction
A leader's power to do both good and evil.
Dark
Unknown or concealed; mysterious
A dark secret.
The dark workings of the unconscious.
Evil
An evil force, power, or personification.
Dark
Lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture
A dark age in the history of education.
Evil
Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction
The social evils of poverty and injustice.
Dark
Evil in nature or effect; sinister
"churned up dark undercurrents of ethnic and religious hostility" (Peter Maas).
Evil
In an evil manner.
Dark
Morally corrupt; vicious
Dark deeds.
A dark past.
Evil
Intending to harm; malevolent.
An evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
Dark
Having richness or depth
A dark, melancholy vocal tone.
Evil
Morally corrupt.
If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?
Dark
Not giving performances; closed
The movie theater is dark on Mondays.
Evil
Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
Dark
(Linguistics) Pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum. Used of the sound (l) in words like full.
Evil
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
Dark
Absence of light.
Evil
(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
An evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
Dark
A place having little or no light.
Evil
Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
Dark
Night; nightfall
Home before dark.
Evil
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
The evils of society include murder and theft.
Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.
Dark
A deep hue or color.
Evil
Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.
Dark
Darks Pieces of laundry having a dark color.
Evil
(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.
Dark
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
The room was too dark for reading.
Evil
(obsolete) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
Dark
(of a source of light) Extinguished.
Dark signals should be treated as all-way stop signs.
Evil
(obsolete) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
Dark
Deprived of sight; blind.
Evil
(obsolete) badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.
It went evil with him.
Dark
Transmitting, reflecting, or receiving inadequate light to render timely discernment or comprehension: caliginous, darkling, dim, gloomy, lightless, sombre.
Evil
Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
A good tree can not bring forth evil fruit.
Dark
(of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
My sister's hair is darker than mine;
Her skin grew dark with a suntan
Evil
Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,When death's approach is seen so terrible.
Dark
Ambiguously or unclearly expressed: enigmatic, esoteric, mysterious, obscure, undefined.
Evil
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
Because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
The owl shrieked at thy birth - an evil sign.
Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
It almost led him to believe in the evil eye.
Dark
Marked by or conducted with secrecy: hidden, secret; clandestine, surreptitious.
Evil
Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; - opposed to good.
Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.
The evil that men do lives after them.
Dark
Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
A dark villain;
A dark deed
Evil
Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
The heart of the sons of men is full of evil.
Dark
Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
The Great Depression was a dark time;
The film was a dark psychological thriller
Evil
Malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil.
Dark
(of a time period) Lacking progress in science or the arts.
Evil
In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
It went evil with his house.
The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us.
Dark
Extremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
September 11, 2001, the day when four terrorist attacks destroyed the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, is often referred to as America's dark day.
Evil
Morally objectionable behavior
Dark
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.
The ending of this book is rather dark.
Evil
That which causes harm or destruction or misfortune;
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones
Dark
Off the air; not transmitting.
Evil
The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;
Attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world
Dark
A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
Dark surrounds us completely.
Evil
Morally bad or wrong;
Evil purposes
An evil influence
Evil deeds
Dark
(uncountable) Ignorance.
We kept him in the dark.
The lawyer was left in the dark as to why the jury was dismissed.
Evil
Having the nature of vice
Dark
(uncountable) Nightfall.
It was after dark before we got to playing baseball.
Evil
Tending to cause great harm
Dark
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.
Evil
Having or exerting a malignant influence;
Malevolent stars
A malefic force
Dark
(intransitive) To grow or become dark, darken.
Dark
(intransitive) To remain in the dark, lurk, lie hidden or concealed.
Dark
(transitive) To make dark, darken; to obscure.
Dark
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion.
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,Irrecoverably dark, total eclipseWithout all hope of day!
In the dark and silent grave.
Dark
Not clear to the understanding; not easily seen through; obscure; mysterious; hidden.
The dark problems of existence.
What may seem dark at the first, will afterward be found more plain.
What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?
Dark
Destitute of knowledge and culture; in moral or intellectual darkness; unrefined; ignorant.
The age wherein he lived was dark, but heCould not want light who taught the world to see.
The tenth century used to be reckoned by mediæval historians as the darkest part of this intellectual night.
Dark
Evincing black or foul traits of character; vile; wicked; atrocious; as, a dark villain; a dark deed.
Left him at large to his own dark designs.
Dark
Foreboding evil; gloomy; jealous; suspicious.
More dark and dark our woes.
A deep melancholy took possesion of him, and gave a dark tinge to all his views of human nature.
There is, in every true woman-s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Dark
Deprived of sight; blind.
He was, I think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.
Dark
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out.
Dark
The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
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.
Dark
A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted.
The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights.
Dark
To darken; to obscure.
Dark
Absence of light or illumination
Dark
Absence of moral or spiritual values;
The powers of darkness
Dark
An unilluminated area;
He moved off into the darkness
Dark
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Dark
An unenlightened state;
He was in the dark concerning their intentions
His lectures dispelled the darkness
Dark
Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored;
Sitting in a dark corner
A dark day
Dark shadows
The theater is dark on Mondays
Dark as the inside of a black cat
Dark
(used of color) having a dark hue;
Dark green
Dark glasses
Dark colors like wine red or navy blue
Dark
Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes);
Dark eyes
Dark
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable;
Black deeds
A black lie
His black heart has concocted yet another black deed
Darth Vader of the dark side
A dark purpose
Dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility
The scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him
Dark
Causing dejection;
A blue day
The dark days of the war
A week of rainy depressing weather
A disconsolate winter landscape
The first dismal dispiriting days of November
A dark gloomy day
Grim rainy weather
Dark
Secret;
Keep it dark
The dark mysteries of Africa and the fabled wonders of the East
Dark
Showing a brooding ill humor;
A dark scowl
The proverbially dour New England Puritan
A glum, hopeless shrug
He sat in moody silence
A morose and unsociable manner
A saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius
A sour temper
A sullen crowd
Dark
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture;
This benighted country
Benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
The dark ages
A dark age in the history of education
Dark
Marked by difficulty of style or expression;
Much that was dark is now quite clear to me
Those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure
Dark
Having skin rich in melanin pigments;
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
The dark races
Dark-skinned peoples
Dark
Not giving performances; closed;
The theater is dark on Mondays
