| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.[Websters]
2. Being gloomy, sombre, murky, somber or cheerless. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being obscure, dim, opaque, shady or cloudy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being black, sable or unlit. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being tenebrous or sooty. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being glum, morose or sulky. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being dingy, dull or heavy. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being saturnine, dismal, sullen, bleak or funereal. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being sad, dreary, doleful or lugubrious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb darksomely.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (darksomely) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective darksome.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "DARKSOME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DARKSOME
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Dark; gloomy; obscure; as a darksome house; a darksome cloud.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] (poetic) dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless That sometimes from the salvage den, And sometimes from the darksome shade, And sometimes staring up at once In green and sunny glade - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Love. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
