Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a dark manner; so as to appear dark; as a dark object or spot.
- Blindly; as one deprived of sight; with uncertainty.
- Dimly; obscurely; faintly; imperfectly.
- Mysteriously; with sinister vagueness: as, it was darkly hinted that murder had been committed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly.
- adverb With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb To appear as dark.
- adverb figuratively
mysterious - adverb
Faintly seen in the dark.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a dark glowering menacing manner
- adverb without light
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hungry mice were waiting in darkly camouflaged papers like frozen cars with their headlights on fire.
Like Trial and Like Error Darryl Price 2010
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•On the upside, neither one of them is about to smash a precarious piece of evidence, as Charlie (Damian Lewis) does in darkly amusing fashion on another good episode of Life (NBC, 10 ET/PT).
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Didn't I read somewhere that a scanner darkly is being made into a movie starring everyone's favorite carp, er, actor, keanu (sp?) reeves?
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He didn’t stumble or trip over his words, bringing them up quickly and darkly from the cavern of his chest, half cough and half words, “Why was your father so attached to the child?”
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He purses his lips and the little silver rings give his expression a darkly comic glint.
Brenda Peterson: The Living Earth and the Living Dead: The Ecology of Vampires Brenda Peterson 2011
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He purses his lips and the little silver rings give his expression a darkly comic glint.
Brenda Peterson: The Living Earth and the Living Dead: The Ecology of Vampires Brenda Peterson 2011
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The Queen looks at the Royal family and their response to the death of Princess Diana and is described as a darkly comic film.
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The Queen looks at the Royal family and their response to the death of Princess Diana and is described as a darkly comic film.
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Lo, now the Trinity appears unto me in a glass darkly, which is
The Confessions 1999
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We see through the glass darkly, which is perhaps why sometimes the world seems grim, but in the clear light of Heaven, every day really is Easter.
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