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Pronunciation:
[ dˈɑːkli], [ dˈɑːkli], [ d_ˈɑː_k_l_i]
Darkly is an adverb which generally indicates an absence of light, or lacking brightness. Synonyms for darkly include gloomily, dimly, somberly, obscurely, murkily, shadowy, cloudily, and hazily. Gloomily and somberly indicate a depressing or melancholic atmosphere, while dimly and obscurely suggest a lack of clarity or visibility. Murkily and shadowy convey a sense of darkness or opacity, and cloudily and hazily describe a partially obscured or misty view. Each synonym brings its own connotation, and the choice of which to use will depend on the context and intended meaning. Ultimately, using these synonyms can help vary language, creating more rich and colorful writing.
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Synonyms for Darkly:
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adv.
• blackly • darkly • hopelessly- cynically ,
- dejectedly ,
- desolately ,
- despairingly ,
- despondently ,
- dispiritedly ,
- emptily ,
- spiritlessly ,
- desperately .
Other synonyms:
- appealing ,
- beatific ,
- black ,
- bleak ,
- brooding ,
- bug-eyed ,
- dark ,
- deadpan ,
- doleful ,
- downcast ,
- dreamy ,
- etched ,
- expressionless ,
- faint ,
- glowering ,
- grave ,
- haunted ,
- hunted ,
- meaningful ,
- mild ,
- mischievous ,
- mobile ,
- pained ,
- pitying ,
- pleading ,
- pleadingly ,
- quizzical ,
- roguish ,
- shamefaced ,
- slack-jawed ,
- smiley ,
- straight-faced ,
- sullen ,
- taut ,
- thoughtful ,
- tight-lipped ,
- unblinking ,
- unreadable ,
- wan ,
- wanly ,
- wide-eyed ,
- wild-eyed ,
- withering ,
- wolfish ,
- worried ,
- wry .
- absent .
Other relevant words:
- absentminded ,
- absorb ,
- abstracted ,
- abstruse ,
- acheronian ,
- acherontic ,
- adept ,
- admiration ,
- afire ,
- aflame ,
- aflare ,
- african-american ,
- ailing ,
- al qaeda ,
- al qaida ,
- alight ,
- alkali ,
- amiss ,
- amnesia ,
- angelic ,
- angelical ,
- annihilating ,
- annihilative ,
- apparition ,
- apprehensive ,
- arch ,
- aroused ,
- atrocious ,
- atrophy ,
- attaint ,
- attentive ,
- attract ,
- attraction ,
- attractor ,
- away ,
- awry ,
- bacchanal ,
- bacchanalia ,
- badness ,
- bag ,
- balmy ,
- barbarous ,
- bare ,
- barren ,
- basal ,
- base of operations ,
- baseborn ,
- basely ,
- basis ,
- bass ,
- bawd ,
- bawdiness ,
- beaming ,
- beamy ,
- begrimed ,
- beneficial ,
- benighted ,
- benumb ,
- beseeching ,
- beseechingly ,
- betting ,
- biased ,
- big ,
- black-market ,
- blacken ,
- blackened ,
- blackguardly ,
- blank ,
- blind ,
- blue ,
- bluff ,
- blunt ,
- blur ,
- bold face ,
- boldface ,
- bootleg ,
- boring ,
- bribe ,
- brightly ,
- brilliant ,
- brilliantly ,
- broody ,
- brownout ,
- brutal ,
- bum ,
- burnished ,
- buy ,
- calamitous ,
- canker sore ,
- card-playing ,
- cast ,
- change ,
- changeable ,
- cheap ,
- cheapness ,
- cheeky ,
- cheesy ,
- childlike ,
- chinchy ,
- clean and jerk ,
- clean house ,
- clean-living ,
- cleanse ,
- clear ,
- close in ,
- cloud ,
- cocotte ,
- coerce ,
- cold-blooded ,
- coldness ,
- colorful ,
- coloured ,
- come out ,
- come out of the closet ,
- commodity ,
- common cold ,
- compound ,
- condemnable ,
- conk ,
- contemplative ,
- contraband ,
- contrariwise ,
- cornerstone ,
- corrupted ,
- corruption ,
- crappy ,
- crepuscle ,
- crepuscule ,
- crook ,
- crooked ,
- cruel ,
- crummy ,
- cryptic ,
- cryptical ,
- curiosity ,
- curl ,
- curl up ,
- cussedly ,
- cut down ,
- cutting ,
- cyprian ,
- damage ,
- damp ,
- dampen ,
- dangerous ,
- darkness ,
- dastard ,
- deadening ,
- dear ,
- debase ,
- debauch ,
- decadency ,
- decayed ,
- defective ,
- defile ,
- degeneracy ,
- degeneration ,
- degrade ,
- degraded ,
- delineate ,
- demean ,
- demoniac ,
- demoralise ,
- demoralize ,
- dense ,
- densely ,
- dependable ,
- depict ,
- deplorable ,
- deplorably ,
- deprave ,
- depressed ,
- describe ,
- desolate ,
- despicable ,
- deteriorate ,
- detestable ,
- devastating ,
- deviant ,
- deviate ,
- devilishly ,
- devolve ,
- dewy-eyed ,
- diabolic ,
- dimmed ,
- dimout ,
- dip ,
- dirt ,
- dirty ,
- dirty word ,
- disadvantageously ,
- disastrous ,
- disconsolate ,
- discredit ,
- discreditably ,
- disembowel ,
- disgraceful ,
- disgracefully ,
- disgustful ,
- disgusting ,
- dishonor ,
- dishonorably ,
- dishonour ,
- dishonourably ,
- dismal ,
- dispirited ,
- disquieted ,
- distasteful ,
- distressed ,
- disturbed ,
- doggedly ,
- dour ,
- down ,
- down in the mouth ,
- downhearted ,
- drab ,
- drag ,
- draw and quarter ,
- draw off ,
- draw play ,
- draw poker ,
- drawing card ,
- dreadfully ,
- drear ,
- dreary ,
- drive ,
- drop ,
- drunken revelry ,
- dry ,
- dumb ,
- dusk ,
- dusky ,
- dusty ,
- dwarf ,
- dyed ,
- edacious ,
- effect ,
- effective ,
- effulgent ,
- encroachment ,
- engrave ,
- engraved ,
- enquire ,
- entreatingly ,
- escape ,
- establish ,
- estimable ,
- esurient ,
- evenfall ,
- evilness ,
- eviscerate ,
- exorbitant ,
- expert ,
- extinct ,
- extortionate ,
- extraordinary ,
- faded ,
- faint-hearted ,
- fainthearted ,
- fair ,
- fairly ,
- fall ,
- fancy woman ,
- fasting ,
- fatal ,
- fateful ,
- faulty ,
- feeble ,
- felled seam ,
- felon ,
- felonious ,
- fill in ,
- fille ,
- filth ,
- fin-de-siecle ,
- firm ,
- fishy ,
- flagitious ,
- flat ,
- flatness ,
- floor ,
- fluid ,
- fly ,
- flyblown ,
- flying ,
- foot ,
- forbidden ,
- force out ,
- force play ,
- force-out ,
- forcefulness ,
- forged ,
- foul ,
- found ,
- foundation ,
- frailty ,
- free-base ,
- fresh ,
- frigid ,
- frigidity ,
- frozen ,
- full ,
- fundament ,
- funny ,
- get ,
- get in ,
- get out ,
- ghost ,
- girl ,
- glassed ,
- glassy ,
- gloaming ,
- gloomful ,
- gloominess ,
- glooming ,
- glum ,
- glumness ,
- goodness ,
- grave accent ,
- gravely ,
- graven ,
- grease one's palms ,
- grievous ,
- grim ,
- grimy ,
- grotesque ,
- grotesquely ,
- ground ,
- groundwork ,
- grubbily ,
- grubby ,
- grungily ,
- grungy ,
- guide ,
- guilty ,
- hale ,
- hangdog ,
- hard ,
- harlot ,
- haul ,
- haulage ,
- haywire ,
- heavy ,
- heedful ,
- heighten ,
- heinously ,
- hellish ,
- hide ,
- hideous ,
- hideously ,
- high-risk ,
- ho-hum ,
- home ,
- honest ,
- honorable ,
- hook ,
- hooking ,
- hopeful ,
- horrid ,
- horridly ,
- horrific ,
- houseclean ,
- humble ,
- humbly ,
- hushed ,
- icky ,
- ignominious ,
- ignominy ,
- ill ,
- ill-timed ,
- imbibe ,
- immobile ,
- immorality ,
- impassive ,
- impel ,
- imperceptibly ,
- impish ,
- implike ,
- imploring ,
- imploringly ,
- importunately ,
- improper ,
- impropriety ,
- in effect ,
- in force ,
- in low spirits ,
- in secret ,
- incertain ,
- incised ,
- incoherence ,
- incoherency ,
- incorrect ,
- incorrectly ,
- incubation ,
- indecipherable ,
- indecorous ,
- indisposed ,
- infernal ,
- inflamed ,
- infrastructure ,
- inhuman ,
- iniquitous ,
- iniquity ,
- injured ,
- ink-black ,
- inky-black ,
- inquire ,
- inscribe ,
- inscribed ,
- inscrutable ,
- insensate ,
- intemperately ,
- intensely ,
- intensify ,
- intrude ,
- intrusion ,
- ironic ,
- ironical ,
- irreverent ,
- irritably ,
- joseph black ,
- just ,
- kayoed ,
- knocked out ,
- ko'd ,
- lack ,
- lackadaisical ,
- lacking ,
- lady of pleasure ,
- lamentably ,
- lamp shade ,
- lampshade ,
- languid ,
- languorous ,
- late ,
- leave out ,
- legal injury ,
- lewd ,
- lewdness ,
- libertine ,
- life-threatening ,
- light ,
- light-headed ,
- lightheaded ,
- lightlessness ,
- lightly ,
- likable ,
- likeable ,
- line ,
- loathly ,
- loathsome ,
- loathsomeness ,
- lot ,
- lousiness ,
- lousy ,
- low ,
- low temperature ,
- low-key ,
- low-keyed ,
- low-spirited ,
- lowering ,
- lowly ,
- loyal ,
- lurid ,
- lusterlessness ,
- lustrelessness ,
- lustrous ,
- make ,
- make clean ,
- malefactor ,
- malefic ,
- malicious gossip ,
- malign ,
- marvel ,
- mat ,
- matte ,
- matted ,
- mean ,
- meanspirited ,
- meditative ,
- meek ,
- melanise ,
- melanize ,
- memory loss ,
- mephistophelean ,
- mephistophelian ,
- mildly ,
- military force ,
- military group ,
- military unit ,
- mischievously ,
- misdirect ,
- misfire ,
- missing ,
- missy ,
- mobile river ,
- mocking ,
- modest ,
- moody ,
- moony ,
- mordant ,
- morose ,
- moth-eaten ,
- mournful ,
- move in ,
- muddied ,
- muddy ,
- muffle ,
- muffled ,
- mulishly ,
- musing ,
- mute ,
- muted ,
- mysterious ,
- mystifying ,
- nastily ,
- naughtily ,
- nauseating ,
- nauseous ,
- near ,
- neat ,
- nefariousness ,
- neglect ,
- negro ,
- negroid ,
- nervy ,
- nicety ,
- night ,
- nightfall ,
- nighttime ,
- noisome ,
- nomadic ,
- nuance ,
- nucleotide ,
- numb ,
- obdurately ,
- obscure ,
- obsessed ,
- obtuse ,
- oceanic abyss ,
- odd ,
- offended ,
- offensive ,
- omit ,
- on fire ,
- on the contrary ,
- on the qt ,
- one-sided ,
- opprobrious ,
- orgy ,
- outlaw ,
- outrage ,
- outrageousness ,
- over-the-top ,
- overleap ,
- overlook ,
- overshadow ,
- overstep ,
- pale ,
- palely ,
- pall ,
- pallid ,
- pallidly ,
- pass ,
- pass out ,
- paying attention ,
- peaked ,
- peculiar ,
- pedestal ,
- pensive ,
- pensiveness ,
- peregrine ,
- personnel ,
- perverse ,
- perversely ,
- pervert ,
- perverted ,
- pestilence ,
- pettishly ,
- phantom ,
- pick ,
- pig-headedly ,
- pitch blackness ,
- pitch-black ,
- pixilated ,
- plodding ,
- plum ,
- plumb ,
- poker-faced ,
- pondering ,
- poorly ,
- possessed ,
- power ,
- practiced ,
- prankish ,
- preoccupied ,
- pressure ,
- pretermit ,
- profane ,
- proficient ,
- profligate ,
- profoundly ,
- prohibited ,
- promising ,
- proscribed ,
- prostitute ,
- prudishly ,
- puckish ,
- puff ,
- pull ,
- pull back ,
- pull in ,
- pull out ,
- punk ,
- push ,
- put down ,
- putrefaction ,
- quarter ,
- queasy ,
- queer ,
- question ,
- questioning ,
- quick ,
- quiet ,
- quixotic ,
- radical ,
- radix ,
- ram ,
- rapacious ,
- rascally ,
- raunchy ,
- ravening ,
- ravenous ,
- raw ,
- reap ,
- recondite ,
- reddened ,
- refinement ,
- reflective ,
- refulgent ,
- regretful ,
- remove ,
- repellant ,
- repellent ,
- repelling ,
- reprehensible ,
- reprobate ,
- repugnant ,
- repulsive ,
- repulsiveness ,
- respectable ,
- retract ,
- revolting ,
- rich ,
- right ,
- rigid ,
- riot ,
- riotous ,
- ripe ,
- risky ,
- romantic ,
- root ,
- root word ,
- rotted ,
- roughshod ,
- round-eyed ,
- roving ,
- rum ,
- ruminative ,
- rummy ,
- run ,
- safe ,
- sainted ,
- saintlike ,
- saintly ,
- salacious ,
- salaciousness ,
- salacity ,
- salutary ,
- saturnalia ,
- saturnine ,
- savage ,
- scatty ,
- scavenge ,
- scoundrelly ,
- scratch ,
- scruffy ,
- sculpt ,
- sculpture ,
- scurvily ,
- secure ,
- sedate ,
- serious ,
- serious-minded ,
- seriously ,
- set ,
- severe ,
- severely ,
- shade off ,
- shadiness ,
- shadowed ,
- shadower ,
- shadowiness ,
- shame ,
- shamed ,
- shameful ,
- sheepish ,
- sheer ,
- shining ,
- shiny ,
- shitty ,
- shoddy ,
- sick ,
- sickening ,
- sickly ,
- simple ,
- sin ,
- sinfulness ,
- singular ,
- sinister ,
- sinner ,
- skanky ,
- skilful ,
- skillful ,
- slanted ,
- sliminess ,
- slimy ,
- slow ,
- sluggish ,
- slur ,
- smart ,
- smuggled ,
- smut ,
- smutty ,
- soak up ,
- sober ,
- soft ,
- softened ,
- softly ,
- solemn ,
- somberness ,
- sombreness ,
- sop up ,
- sorry ,
- sound ,
- soundly ,
- sour ,
- specter ,
- spectre ,
- speculative ,
- spoil ,
- spoiled ,
- spoilt ,
- spook ,
- sporting ,
- sporting lady ,
- sportsmanlike ,
- sporty ,
- squeeze ,
- stale ,
- stand ,
- standoff ,
- stark ,
- steep ,
- stem ,
- stinking ,
- stinky ,
- storm ,
- strength ,
- strike down ,
- string ,
- strip ,
- stubbornly ,
- stunned ,
- substructure ,
- subtlety ,
- subvert ,
- suck ,
- suck in ,
- suck up ,
- suffer ,
- sulky ,
- sully ,
- suspect ,
- suspicious ,
- swoon ,
- swooning ,
- sympathetic ,
- syncope ,
- taboo ,
- tabu ,
- tackiness ,
- tad ,
- tail ,
- taint ,
- tainted ,
- take advantage ,
- take down ,
- take in ,
- take out ,
- take up ,
- taken up ,
- tart ,
- tat ,
- teasing ,
- tedious ,
- terrible ,
- testily ,
- theme ,
- thick ,
- thoroughly ,
- thread ,
- threatening ,
- thrust ,
- thudding ,
- tie ,
- tight ,
- timid ,
- tincture ,
- tinny ,
- tint ,
- tiresome ,
- to a great extent ,
- to the contrary ,
- tomb ,
- tone ,
- tone down ,
- total darkness ,
- tough ,
- trace ,
- trade good ,
- transgress ,
- trench ,
- truehearted ,
- turn a loss ,
- ugliness ,
- ugly ,
- umbrageous ,
- unbecoming ,
- unclean ,
- unclear ,
- unclouded ,
- uncollectible ,
- uncomely ,
- unconscionable ,
- uncontaminating ,
- undecipherable ,
- under the weather ,
- understructure ,
- undimmed ,
- unexpressive ,
- unfit ,
- unflinching ,
- ungodly ,
- unhappily ,
- unholy ,
- uninfected ,
- unintimidated ,
- unobjectionable ,
- unsavory ,
- unsealed ,
- unseasonable ,
- unseemly ,
- unsettled ,
- unshrinking ,
- unsound ,
- unspoiled ,
- unspoilt ,
- unsure ,
- untimely ,
- untoward ,
- unwell ,
- unworthy ,
- upright ,
- upset ,
- urgently ,
- usurious ,
- usurpation ,
- vague ,
- vanish ,
- verboten ,
- vestige ,
- vicious ,
- vileness ,
- violation ,
- violence ,
- vitiate ,
- vivid ,
- voracious ,
- vulgarism ,
- wandering ,
- wanting ,
- washed-out ,
- washy ,
- weak ,
- wearisome ,
- wedge ,
- weighted ,
- weighty ,
- well ,
- white ,
- wickedly ,
- wide ,
- wide area network ,
- wispy ,
- withdraw ,
- woefully ,
- wolflike ,
- woman of the street ,
- wonderment ,
- woolgathering ,
- working girl ,
- worthless ,
- wraith ,
- wraithlike ,
- wretched ,
- wrongfulness ,
- wrongly ,
- young lady ,
- young woman ,
- yucky .
- Achromatically ,
- Bluely ,
- Duskily ,
- Minatorily ,
- Mordantly ,
- Muddily ,
- Rancidly ,
- Shadily ,
- Sinisterly ,
- ablaze ,
- abstrusely ,
- aristocratically ,
- badly ,
- balefully ,
- be at sea ,
- blasphemously ,
- bleached ,
- bleakly ,
- blindly ,
- bold ,
- brash ,
- bright ,
- calamitously ,
- cheerlessly ,
- chintzy ,
- clean ,
- cold ,
- color-coded ,
- colored ,
- colorfully ,
- cryptically ,
- deep ,
- deeply ,
- disastrously ,
- disconsolately ,
- dismally ,
- dolefully ,
- dolorously ,
- drably ,
- dully ,
- enigmatically ,
- evilly ,
- falsely ,
- fatally ,
- fatefully ,
- gently ,
- give it up ,
- heavily ,
- ignominiously ,
- ignorance ,
- in darkness ,
- inconsolably ,
- indistinctly ,
- inexorably ,
- ingloriously ,
- lose ,
- mirthlessly ,
- miserably ,
- miss ,
- mistily ,
- mournfully ,
- mysteriously ,
- ominously ,
- opprobriously ,
- pertinaciously ,
- pessimistically ,
- profanely ,
- puritanically ,
- racily ,
- relentlessly ,
- sadly ,
- secretly ,
- shadowily ,
- shamefully ,
- sombrely ,
- sorrowfully ,
- sternly ,
- temperamentally ,
- tenaciously ,
- tenebrously ,
- thickly ,
- uncertain ,
- unforgivingly ,
- unintelligibility ,
- unnoticeably ,
- unrelentingly ,
- unyieldingly ,
- without light ,
- wonder .
- abhorrent ,
- amoral ,
- anomie ,
- bad ,
- base ,
- blackness ,
- blackout ,
- canker ,
- corrupt ,
- crepuscular ,
- criminal ,
- darken ,
- dastardly ,
- debauched ,
- debauchery ,
- decadence ,
- decadent ,
- deepen ,
- degenerate ,
- demoniacal ,
- demonic ,
- depraved ,
- depravity ,
- devilish ,
- diabolical ,
- dim ,
- dingy ,
- disgrace ,
- dissipated ,
- dissolute ,
- draw ,
- draw in ,
- dull ,
- enormity ,
- evil ,
- evildoer ,
- fast ,
- fell ,
- force ,
- gloom ,
- gloomy ,
- godless ,
- good ,
- half-light ,
- hanky-panky ,
- heinous ,
- immoral ,
- impure ,
- indecency ,
- indecent ,
- inglorious ,
- inky ,
- leaden ,
- malevolent ,
- malignant ,
- matt ,
- monstrous ,
- monstrously ,
- moonless ,
- nefarious ,
- obscene ,
- obscenity ,
- out ,
- outrageous ,
- pitch-dark ,
- rotten ,
- satanic ,
- scandal ,
- scandalous ,
- seamy ,
- seedy ,
- shade ,
- shadow ,
- shadowy ,
- shady ,
- shocking ,
- shockingly ,
- silhouette ,
- silhouetted ,
- sin 1 ,
- sinful ,
- sleaze ,
- sleaze factor ,
- sleazy ,
- sordid ,
- squalid ,
- stygian ,
- subdued ,
- subhuman ,
- the gloaming ,
- trespass ,
- turpitude ,
- twilight ,
- twilit ,
- unethical ,
- unprincipled ,
- unsavoury ,
- unscrupulous ,
- vice ,
- vile ,
- villainous ,
- whore ,
- wicked ,
- wickedness ,
- wrong .
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How to use "Darkly" in context?
"darkly" is a word meaning "somberly," "pessimistically," or "disconsolately." It can also refer to something that is "shady," "hateful," or "violent." Although the word is relatively uncommon, it has found a place in popular culture, particularly in poems and songs.
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