Darkly

/ˈdɑːkli/ · adverb

Meaning

With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension..

Definitions by Sense

1. With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.
2. With a dark appearance.
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.

Example Sentences

I could make out his image darkly.

For now we ſee through a glaſſe darkley: but then face to face: now I know in part, but then ſhall I know euen as alſo I am knowen.

With his hands behind his back he walked through the echoing rooms. In the reddish mist his shadow flitted darkly across the mirrors on the walls.

And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliest lowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh!

Darkly painted machinery takes a great deal of light out of a shop; the rays seem to be absorbed into the somber pigments.

Cerro Colorado is composed of granitic rocks covered with a dark-colored desert varnish. The Sierra Cucapa are a lighter reddish-brown and lie in the background on the far side of Laguna Salada. They are also covered with a patina of desert varnish but not as darkly as the surface of Cerro Colorado. […] A minor weathering feature of the desert is a thin, shiny, reddish-brown to blackish coating called desert varnish that occurs on some desert rocks.

He saw how the candlesticks shone darkly in the vicinity of the diamond flames in Shevele's ears and on her silk dress collar.

Set defenses permitted a coach to plan an attack with scant worry as to where he would find the offensive men. So our Tom Reilly schemed darkly and came up with the attack which pried apart the Brown Bowlers. His scheme was to double team every man in the defensive line by employing one back as an eighth lineman and spreading the enemy further by posting a wingback outside the strong end of an unbalanced line which had five men on this side of center.

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• darklier
• more darkly
• darkliest
• most darkly

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