darkling

¹dark·ling

adverb \ˈdär-kliŋ\

Definition of DARKLING

: in the dark

Origin of DARKLING

Middle English derkelyng, from derk dark + -lyng -ling

First Known Use: 15th century

²dark·ling

adjective

Definition of DARKLING

1

: dark

2

: done or taking place in the dark

Examples of DARKLING

1. <the darkling valleys of Transylvania, where tales of vampires have long existed>

First Known Use of DARKLING

1718

Related to DARKLING

Synonyms

black, caliginous, darkened, darkish, dark, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), stygian, tenebrific, tenebrous, unlit

Antonyms

bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous

Related Words

crepuscular, twilit; moonless, starless, sunless; cloudy, dull, dulled, lackluster; shadowlike, shadowy, shady; gray (also grey), leaden, pale; beclouded, befogged, clouded, foggy, fuliginous, misty, smoggy, soupy

Near Antonyms

ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling; ultrabright; glossy, lustrous, shiny; floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit); moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit