What is another word for darkly?
Pronunciation:
[ dˈɑːkli], [ dˈɑːkli], [ d_ˈɑː_k_l_i]
Related words: dark, darkly, dark side
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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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