in the dark

phrase

1

: in secrecy

most of his dealings were done in the dark

2

: in ignorance

kept the public in the dark about the agreement

Examples of in the dark in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Many of the memorial wall panels bearing the names of the more than 36,000 Americans who died in the war are in the dark. — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026

Accessibility failures thrive in the dark, where no one has to explain how decisions are made, why capacity isn’t anticipated accurately, or what accessibility actually looks like when thousands of disabled people often have to navigate barriers. — Maribeth Romslo, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026

Particularly prominent were complaints from parents, who didn’t like their children walking to school in the dark. — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 31 Oct. 2026

But there are actual terrifying objects in space, entities operating on a scale that crush our minds and reduce our human experience to a mote of dust floating in the dark. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for in the dark

• disembark
• matriarch
• meadowlark
• patriarch
• watermark
• arc
• ark
• bark
• barque
• hark
• lark
• marc