Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb In the dark.
- adjective Occurring or enacted in the dark.
- adjective Dark; dim.
- noun The dark.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In the dark.
- Hence Blindly; uncertainly.
- Sitting in the dark.
- Dark; obscure; gloomy.
- Blinded.
- Rendering dark; obscuring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Poetic In the dark.
- Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
- Dark; gloomy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
darkness - noun fantasy a
creature that lives in thedark - adjective
dark ;darkening - adjective
obscure , done or happening 'in the dark' or unseen - adverb in the dark,
obscurely - verb Present participle of
darkle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure
- adjective (poetic) occurring in the dark or night
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then clipt and clung about his breast enveiled in darkling room.
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And died in darkling air no more to be for ever shown.’
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Plus, if I just threw in some multisyllabic words, extended my sentences until each was a paragraph long, and used "darkling" a few times, I'd be the Faulkner of Phoenix.
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Many of her class set out by being impostors, and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves, or when imposing on others.
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Many of her class set out by being impostors and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves or when imposing on others.
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Many of her class set out by being impostors and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves or when imposing on others.
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Many of her class set out by being impostors and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves or when imposing on others.
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Many of her class set out by being impostors and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves or when imposing on others.
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"'Mine was the woman, darkling I found her,'" he hummed, significantly.
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To him I reported every detail that occurred when he was not with me; and he, with furrowed brows, sitting darkling by the hour, like a patient spider unravelled the tangle and spun the web afresh.
brtom commented on the word darkling
... as the wakeful Bird
Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid
Tunes her nocturnal Note.
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 18, 2006
sionnach commented on the word darkling
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
– Matthew Arnold , Dover Beach.
November 3, 2007