暗い

Meanings

1. dark; gloomy; murky
2. depressed; dispirited; down in the dumps; dark (mood)
3. dark (in colour); dull
4. ill-boding; dark (e.g. past); suspicious
5. unlikely (to succeed); hopeless; unpromising

Part of speech: i-adjective

Kanji

• 暗

  Meanings

  darkness, disappear, shade, informal

  On reading

  アン

  Kun reading

  くら.い、くら.む、くれ.る

  Strokes

  13

Example sentences

• あたりがもう暗くなっていることに気がついた。

  I observed that it had already got dark.

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