When most I wink, then do my eyes best see, for all the day they view things unrespected, but when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee and darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
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Darkly
//ˈdɑːkli//
Synonyms for "darkly" (23 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Adverb(5 words)
Strong matches (7)
Adverb(5 words)
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (11)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
10 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- мрачно adv (with a dark appearance)
Esperanto
2 entries- mallume adv (with a dark appearance)
- mistere adv (mysteriously; forebodingly, ominously — see also mysteriously, ominously)
Finnish
1 entries- pimeästi adv (with a dark appearance)
French
3 entries- mystérieusement adv (mysteriously; forebodingly, ominously — see also mysteriously, ominously)
- obscurément adv (with a dark appearance)
- sombrement adv (with a dark appearance)
Greek
1 entries- μυστηριωδώς adv (mysteriously; forebodingly, ominously — see also mysteriously, ominously)
Italian
4 entries- cupamente adv (with a dark appearance)
- misteriosamente adv (mysteriously; forebodingly, ominously — see also mysteriously, ominously)
- oscuramente adv (with a dark appearance)
- oscuramente adv (mysteriously; forebodingly, ominously — see also mysteriously, ominously)
Latvian
1 entries- tumši adv (with a dark appearance)
Navajo
1 entries- diłhiłgo adv (with a dark appearance)
Old Armenian
1 entries- աղօտ adv (with a dark appearance)
Polish
2 entries- ciemno adv (with a dark appearance)
- mrocznie adv (with a dark appearance)
Russian
4 entries- зло́бно adv (with a dark appearance)
- мра́чно adv (with a dark appearance)
- нея́сно adv (with a dark appearance)
- темно́ adv (with a dark appearance)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sȕmōrno adv (in a morbid manner — see also morbidly, sinisterly)
- tȃmno adv (with a dark appearance)
- су̏мо̄рно adv (in a morbid manner — see also morbidly, sinisterly)
- та̑мно adv (with a dark appearance)
Spanish
1 entries- misteriosamente adv (mysteriously; forebodingly, ominously — see also mysteriously, ominously)
Sample sentences
27 total sentences available.
"I can never do that," said Anne determinedly and darkly. "You can punish me in any way you like, Marilla. You can shut me up in a dark, damp dungeon inhabited by snakes and toads and feed me only on bread and water and I shall not complain. But I cannot ask Mrs. Lynde to forgive me."
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The choroid is a highly vascularised, darkly pigmented layer found in between the retina and the sclera of the eye.
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The choroid is darkly pigmented to fully absorb the light passing through the retina, so as to avoid internal reflection which would lead to blurry vision.
Source: tatoeba (9408452)
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