Meaning

8 senses
  1. With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.

    I could make out his image darkly.

    without light

  2. With a dark appearance.

    мра́чноmráčno, нея́сноnejásno, темно́temnó

    in a dark glowering menacing manner

  3. (figuratively)In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously.

  4. (figuratively)In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely.

  5. (figuratively)In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly.

  6. (figuratively)In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly.

  7. (figuratively)In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously.

  8. (figuratively)In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly.

    a darkly comic dystopian drama

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The choroid is a highly vascularised, darkly pigmented layer found in between the retina and the sclera of the eye.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
with a dark appearance:

Origin

From Middle English derkly, derkely, derkliche, derkeliche; equivalent to dark + -ly. Comp

From Middle English derkly, derkely, derkliche, derkeliche; equivalent to dark + -ly. Compare Old English deorclīċe, a parallel formation.

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Forms

darklier/more darkly, darkliest/most darkly
Comparativedarklier / more darkly Lesson
Superlativedarkliest / most darkly

regular

Synonyms

22 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relateddark

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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