darkly
About 1.18 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb With insufficient light for easy discernment or comprehension.
I could make out his image darkly.
- adverb With a dark appearance.
- adverb In a manner which is not readily visible or noticeable; inconspicuously.
- adverb In a manner which retards or prevents discernment; clandestinely.
- adverb In a manner which is difficult to understand, or which retards or prevents understanding; incomprehensibly.
- adverb In a manner which tends to produce uncertainty or confusion; bewilderingly.
- adverb In a manner which produces an inward conviction of future misfortune; ominously.
- adverb In a morbid manner; morbidly, sinisterly.
a darkly comic dystopian drama
Similar words
in darkness strongly heavily highly gloomily somberly grimly murkily dimly bleakly
Often followed by
and stained pigmented at in that staining handsome on
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