darkly

English

Etymology

From dark +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

Adverb

darkly (comparative darklier or more darkly, superlative darkliest or most darkly)

  1. With a dark appearance.
    • 2016, Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk, ‎Piotr J. Wróbel, ‎Robert M. Shapiro, Poyln: My Life within Jewish Life in Poland, Sketches and Images
      He saw how the candlesticks shone darkly in the vicinity of the diamond flames in Shevele's ears and on her silk dress collar.
  2. (figuratively) mysteriously.
  3. Faintly seen in the dark.
    I could make out his image darkly.
  4. In a morbid manner; sinisterly.
    a darkly comic dystopian drama
    • February 2018, Robert Draper in National Geographic Magazine, They Are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet
      By visible evidence, this Saturday morning is a comparatively placid one. Earlier in the week a young man had died after being stabbed in a flat, and from the overpass at Archway Road, darkly referred to as “suicide bridge,” another man had jumped to his death.

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