| darkl | Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue. [ Lyric ] |
| darkling | (adj) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure; ; -Archibald MacLeish, Example: a darkling glance; secret operatives and darkling conspiracies |
| darkling | (adj) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night, Example: a darkling journey |
| darkling beetle | (n) sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain, Syn. darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid |
| darkly | (adv) without light, Syn. in darkness, Example: the river was sliding darkly under the mist |
| darkly | (adv) in a dark glowering menacing manner, Example: he stared darkly at her |
| Darkle | v. i. [ Freq. of dark. ] To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Darkling | adv. [ Dark + the adverbial suffix -ling. ] In the dark. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ] So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] As the wakeful bird |
| Darkling | p. pr. & a. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Darkly | adv. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] so softly dark and darkly pure. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ] Looking darkly at the clerguman. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ] |