Darkly

Quick meaning: Darkly is an adverb meaning With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.

Meaning

With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.

More Meanings

1. With a dark appearance.
2. (figuratively) In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously.
3. (figuratively) In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely.
4. (figuratively) In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly.
5. (figuratively) In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly.
6. (figuratively) In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously.
7. (figuratively) In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly.

Example Sentences

I could make out his image darkly.

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• darklier
• darkliest

Synonyms for darkly

Depending on context, synonyms include blackly, sably, anonymously, obscurely, unapparently, unnoticeably.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include strongly, heavily, highly, gloomily, somberly, grimly.

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