Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adv. In the dark.
- adj. Occurring or enacted in the dark.
- adj. Dark; dim.
- n. The dark: "She carried some rugs for me through the shrubbery in the darkling” ( H.G. Wells).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. darkness
- n. a creature that lives in the dark
- adj. dark; darkening
- adj. obscure, done or happening 'in the dark' or unseen
- adv. in the dark, obscurely
- v. Present participle of darkle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adv. In the dark.
- Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
- Dark; gloomy.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In the dark.
- Hence Blindly; uncertainly.
- Dark; obscure; gloomy.
- Blinded.
- Rendering dark; obscuring.
- Sitting in the dark.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure
- adj. (poetic) occurring in the dark or night
Etymologies
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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"'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.
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They vanished in the darkling air, but a moment later, two of the distant figures fell, pinned to the ground.
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Standing recently upon the heathery crest of Hartcliff Hill we looked due west, where the Woodhead Road climbs Bord Hill, where the darkling moortops were suddenly illuminated.
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He advocates despair in the face of life on a darkling plain on which ignorant armies clash by night, a wasteland.
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
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