Swart

/ˈswɔːt/ · adjective

Meaning

Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
2. (UK dialectal) Black.
3. (obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
4. (UK dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff.
5. (transitive) To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.
6. Obsolete spelling of sward.
7. (Ireland dialectal) Variant of swath.

Example Sentences

1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be

A nation strange, with visage swart

Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,

Of shades , and wanton winds , and gushing brooks , On whose fresh lap the swart - star sparely looks

I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face Shall be a hell to look upon […]

The merry soldiers footing it with the swart savage maids

The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.

[…] unpierced ever With glitter of sun rays Nor with stars stretched, nor looking back from heaven Swartest night stretched over wretched men there.

Synonyms for swart

Antonyms for swart

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Word Forms

• swarter
• swartest
• swarts
• swarting
• swarted

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