Definitions for darkling

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darkling dark·ling

Spelling: [dahrk-ling]

IPA: /ˈdɑrk lɪŋ/

Darkling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in darkling (adgiklnr).

Definitions for darkling

adverb

1. in the dark.

adjective

1. growing dark.
2. being or occurring in the dark; dark; obscure.
3. vaguely threatening or menacing.

verb (used without object)

1. to appear dark; show indistinctly.
2. to grow dark, gloomy, etc.

Origin of darkling

First recorded in 1400-50, darkling is from the late Middle English word derkeling. See dark, -ling²

Examples for darkling

But soon the dusk won its will, and the darkling track lay empty.

The gloom of the darkling forests, too, had passed into the sunlit parks of delight.

Away in a darkling corner, under the organ, sate a squad of footmen.

The cold, steely, darkling sweep of desert had been transformed.

She carried some rugs for me through the shrubbery in the darkling.

She looked up, as I hesitated, and flashed that darkling glance of hers at me.

A darkling shade settled on the face of the devoted secretary.

Immediately the square of darkling sky was eclipsed by the cabby's face.

Bonaparte fixed an eye, darkling as an eagle's, on Bernadotte.

Not that my desire failed, but aid came not to ferry me over the darkling waters.