darkly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   without light

   The river was sliding darkly under the mist.

2. 2
   adv

   in a dark glowering menacing manner

   They stared darkly at us after relaying the news.

3. 3
   adv

   With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.

   I could make out his image darkly.

4. 4
   adv

   With a dark appearance.

   And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliest lowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh!

From Middle English derkly, derkely, derkliche, derkeliche; equivalent to dark + -ly. Compare Old English deorclīċe, a parallel formation.

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