Darkling

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • ad. 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 darklingā€ ( H.G. Wells).
  • 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
  • ad. in the dark, obscurely
  • v. Present participle of darkle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • ad. In the dark.
  • Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing.
  • Dark; gloomy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In the dark.
  • Hence Blindly; uncertainly.
  • Dark; obscure; gloomy.
  • Blinded.
  • Rendering dark; obscuring.
  • Sitting in the dark.
  • 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
  • Equivalent
    dark   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    frowing    dark    gloomy   
    Verb Stem
    darkle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fathomless    starlit    wintry    sunlit    star-spangled    vaporous    low-lying    darksome    twilit    murky