DARKLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does darkly mean? 

• DARKLY (adverb)
  The adverb DARKLY has 2 senses:

1. without light

2. in a dark glowering menacing manner

  Familiarity information: DARKLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARKLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without light

Synonyms:

darkly; in darkness

Context example:

the river was sliding darkly under the mist

Pertainym:

dark (devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a dark glowering menacing manner

Context example:

he stared darkly at her

Pertainym:

dark (showing a brooding ill humor)

 Context examples 

Jock Horner, quiet as was his way, gave no sign; but the blood surged darkly across Smoke’s forehead, and he half opened his mouth to speak.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The night had fallen on the Kentish hills when we were rowed ashore—and fallen darkly upon me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Keesh's eyes began to flash, and the blood to pound darkly under his skin.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of darkly stained macrophages that contain melanin.

(Darkly Pigmented Melanophages Present, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign, darkly pigmented skin lesion characterized by proliferation of keratinocytes and melanocytes.

(Melanoacanthoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The nucleus is small, elongated and darkly stained.

(Interstitial Cell of the Pineal Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic finding referring to the presence of darkly stained nuclei due to abundance of DNA on hematoxylin-eosin stained sections.

(Hyperchromasia, NCI Thesaurus)

But there came a time when Laurie ceased to worship at many shrines, hinted darkly at one all-absorbing passion, and indulged occasionally in Byronic fits of gloom.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mind you don't, said Bessie; and when she had ascertained that I was really subsiding, she loosened her hold of me; then she and Miss Abbot stood with folded arms, looking darkly and doubtfully on my face, as incredulous of my sanity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Harker was still and quiet; but over his face, as the awful narrative went on, came a grey look which deepened and deepened in the morning light, till when the first red streak of the coming dawn shot up, the flesh stood darkly out against the whitening hair.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)