Darkling- the meaning

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darkling

adjective dark·ling

Definition of darkling

  1. 1:  dark

  2. 2:  done or taking place in the dark

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Examples of darkling in a sentence

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

1718

First Known Use of darkling

1718

darkling Synonyms

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 (alsogrey), 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 (alsofloodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (orspotlit); moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit

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