düster

Etymology
From north-western, from , from.

While Standard German is a borrowing from Low German, the word is native in  and some bordering dialects of 🇨🇬; compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  dark without light

Usage notes

 * The synonym was originally chiefly restricted to colour. Contemporary usage, however, has been influenced by Standard German such that  is generally applicable, and  covers Standard German  and  (see the latter).

Etymology
From, from , ultimately from. The word also exists in parts of West Central German (compare 🇨🇬), which probably facilitated the borrowing; but the standardised form is definitely from Low German in view of its lacking diphthongisation.

Adjective

 * 1) dark, dim, gloomy, obscure
 * 2)  cheerless, melancholy, somber

Usage notes

 * The general word for “dark” is, which is usual in all contexts and refers to both light and colour. The words and  are chiefly restricted to the sense “lacking light”; both of them often have an undertone of eeriness or somberness. In contemporary German,  usually means a virtual lack of light, while  tends to mean a dim twilight.
 * The contracted comparative düstrer is per se rare, but more commonly seen in the inflected forms, e.g. düstrere, düstrerer (in order to avoid the three reduced syllables and reduplication in düsterere, düstererer).

Etymology
From, from. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * (Mecklenburg)
 * (Mecklenburg)

Adjective

 * 1) dark, obscure
 * 2) cheerless, melancholy, somber
 * 3) of no good intention, evil