darkly
/ˈdɑɹkli/ adverb C1- With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension. · I could make out his image darkly.
- With a dark appearance.
- In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously.
- In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely.
- In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly.
- In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly.
- In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously.
- In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly. · a darkly comic dystopian drama
Comparative darklier · Superlative darkliest
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Holmes had the impersonal joy of the true artist in his better work, even as he mourned darkly when it fell below the high level to which he aspired.
Above the bridge the pond ran up into fringing groves of fir and maple and lay all darkly translucent in their wavering shadows.
“I can never do that,” said Anne determinedly and darkly.
Beyond, the Avonlea hills came out darkly against the saffron sky.
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