dark-hearted

English

Alternative forms

darkhearted, dark hearted

Adjective

dark-hearted (comparative more dark-hearted, superlative most dark-hearted)

Malevolent; cold and cruel.
- 2012, Eathon Gums, Bridge over Troubled American Waters: Based on Race Division in America, →ISBN:
  We must not forget that Satan is predicted by God as being evil and dark-hearted.
- 2012, Paul Doherty, A Brood of Vipers, →ISBN:
  Born in Ipswich at the time of the great plague, I grew, if not straight in the eyes of my contemporaries, then at least I grew – dark-faced, dark-haired, dark-hearted with a slight cast in one eye.
- 2014, Maya Blake, What The Greek Can't Resist, →ISBN:
  Perla Lowell's marriage was a painful sham, so now—penniless and alone —she refuses to let this dark-hearted Greek intimidate her.
- 2015, Samantha Harte, Timberhill, →ISBN:
  I can help...but not if you use another. Think on that, my dark-hearted wildman.
(archaic) Unenlightened; ignorant of holy teachings.
- 1853, Naval Journal - Volume 25, page 135:
  His dying command makes in incumbent on his followers to offer the “unspeakable gift” alike at the door of cottage and palace, forecastle and cabin. Mountain top and vale— plain and ocean are to be made to rejoice in the “glad tidings of great joy.” How the dark-hearted of earth need its light.
- 1872, The Net, page 6:
  Poor, dark-hearted creatures! when will they learn to say with us those calm words of intense Christian comfort,
- 1880, Robert Steel, The New Hebrides and Christian Missions:
  Our fathers were dark-hearted heathen, they knew not Thee and Thy holy word ; and our hearts are worse, for we know that we do not serve Thee as we ought, yet we are Thy work, and come to Thee for help, the help of Thy Holy Spirit.
- 1912, Until the Shadows Flee Away:
  The sad and dark-hearted women in the villages can see for themselves what the Sun of Righteousness can do, for was she not at one time one The Land of the Five Rivers.
- 1921, R. Nishimoto, A Catechism of the Shin Sect (Buddhism) by A.K. Reischauer, page 8:
  May the dark-hearted and the shallow in wisdom respectfully give heed to this way.
Despondent.
- 1862, Gerald Griffin, The Rivals: And Tracy's Ambition, page 205:
  I was not prosperous enough to become intoxicated, nor poor enough to grow moody and dark-hearted, nor sufficiently at ease in my circumstances to sit idle and invent sin.
- 1895, Amy Carmichael, From Sunrise Land: Letters from Japan, page 33:
  Only a dark-hearted bit of humanity, praying into the dark ; but what must that " only " mean to the Christ who died for him ?
- 2013, Janet Peery, What the Thunder Said: A Novella and Stories, →ISBN:
  Here I have to say that I was walking along dark-hearted, my nose out of joint about Audie's notice of her, for just as quickly as my feelings kindled, my old envy rared.
Bleak.
- 1953, Frank Borden Hanes, The Bat Brothers, page 294:
  What is the latest word from the dark-hearted hills?
- 2000, Ruth Leon, Sheridan Morley, A Century of Theatre, page 1941:
  His work can mainly be divided into classical adaptations, usually with a dark heart, and apparently fluffy country-house comedies, often concerned with aristocrats and actresses, though these also tend to be dark-hearted and fundamentally, if not tragic, then at least elegantly sad about the human condition and its various compromises and betrayals.
- 2015, Ken Kalfus, Coup de Foudre, →ISBN:
  A senior writer at a small but influential political journal in 2005, the cold, dark-hearted year after the Bush-Kerry debacle, Adam had become convinced that the provision of decent medical treatment for every American was the crucial moral struggle of his generation.
Having dark heartwood.
- 1901, The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volumes 16-17, page 226:
  The wood is pale yellowish, often dark-hearted, close, dense, liable to split.
Having a dark center.
- 1867, Catherine Ann Warfield, The Romance of Beauseincourt, page 126:
  I seemed to look down on a parterre of mixed hyacinths, variegated tulips, and dark-hearted poppies, as I beheld them.
- 1904, Hugo de Vries, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation:
  The dark-hearted or dominants behaved in two different ways. Some of them remained true to their type, all their offspring being dark-hearted.
- 1984, McCall's - Volume 111, page 57:
  Here, the tulips will bloom in rainbow riot, followed by the dark-hearted iris.
- 2004, Aḥmad Karīmī Ḥakkāk, Kamran Talattof, Essays On Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism In Persian Poetry, →ISBN, page 159:
  His hands were so skilled in their actions, and our boat so happy on the sea, from the mingled colors of the moonlight a color more efflorescent emerged, just as the dawn emerges at the end of the night from the sneezes of a dark-hearted night.

Synonyms

black-hearted