dark ages

Speech parts

1. dark ages - Noun

2. Dark ages - Proper noun

Meaning

the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

middle ages art deco stone age Early Middle Ages High Middle Ages median age medieval era in olden times medieval age gothic period late medieval period middle centuries medieval days medieval worlds in medieval times

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Antonyms

information age digital age information era media age Digital Era technological age

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Examples

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages. Gertrude Stein

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. Ben Hecht

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. Steve Jobs

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. Buckminster Fuller

The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost? Jane Jacobs

Close letter words and terms

dark aesthetic dark affair Dark Age dark ale dark alternative dark alternative scene