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darkling
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Synonyms: Adjective
black, caliginous, dark, darkened, darkish, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), stygian, tenebrific, tenebrous, unlit
Antonyms: Adjective
bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous
Adjective
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15th century, in the meaning defined above
1718, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Middle English derkelyng, from derk dark + -lyng -ling
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