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DARKSOME

Definition: DARKSOME

DARKSOME

Adjective

1. Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DARKSOME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

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Crosswords: DARKSOME

English words defined with "DARKSOME": Obscure rays. (references)

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Usage Frequency: DARKSOME

"DARKSOME" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DARKSOME" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: DARKSOME

Language Translations for "DARKSOME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i zi (black, bold, coaly, ebon, ebony, inky, mourning, nigrescent, pitchy, Raven, sable, sooty, unfortunate), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, dark, darkling, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, somber, sombre, sooty, unlit), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful). (various references)

   

Czech

  

tmavý (black, dark, deep, nubilous, shadowy, swarthy). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

homályos (abstruse, apocalyptic, bleary, blurred, cloudy, dim, dusk, dusky, equivocal, foggy, frosted, fuzzy, gloomy, hazy, indistinct, indistinctive, lustreless, misty, murky, nebulous, oblique, obscure, recondite, shadowy, shady, shape, stygian, transcendental, twilit, unclear, vague). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arksomeday.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun-bird, dusk, dust, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gauntlet, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-hearted, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), fosco (frosted, mat). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

umbros (adumbral, shady, thick, umbrageous), obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, dim, dull, entangled, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unknown, unnoticed), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

темный (black, blackish, blind, cimmerian, dark, dun, gloomy, ignorant, lowering, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, sombre, sunless, tenebrous, unlit), мрачный (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, dismal, dour, drear, dreary, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, heavy, lugubrious, macabre, mirk, morose, mournful, murk, murky, obscure, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

natušten, mračan (bleak, dark, dim, dusky, gloomy, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, obscure, somber, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

oscuro (abstruse, cimmerian, dark, darkling, deep, dim, dingy, dissolute, dusk, dusky, eery, gloomy, insignificant, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, pitchy, shadowy, twilight, vat). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

mörk (dark, dingy, dun, dusky, grave, murk, murky, obscure, sombre). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

темнуватий (dimmish), темний (abstruse, backwoods, black, cimmerian, dark, darkling, lowering, murk, murky, nightly, nigrescent, obscure, occult, opaque, shaded, smutty, somber, sombre), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

mù mịt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DARKSOME

Misspellings

"DARKSOME" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Karskoe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DARKSOME"

Words rhyming with "DARKSOME" (pronounced 'Dark"some'): Awesome, Awsome, Blithesome, Brightsome, Delightsome, Dinsome, Dolesome, Dullsome, Fearsome, fulsome, Fusome, Gainsome, Galsome, Gamesome, Gaysome, Gladsome, Gleesome, Hadsome, handsome, Healthsome, Heartsome, irksome, Joysome, Kirsome, Laughsome, Liefsome, Lifesome, lightsome, lithesome, loathsome, lonesome, Longsome, lovesome, Mirksome, Noisome, Pithsome, Playsome, Roomsome, tiresome, toilsome, toothsome, Toysome, Twigsome, Ugsome, Unhandsome, Welsome, Wholesome, Wieldsome, Willsome, Winsome, Wlatsome, Woesome, Youthsome. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DARKSOME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-m-o-r-s"

-1 letter: demarks, radomes.

-2 letters: adores, arkose, demark, dermas, drakes, dreams, madres, makers, marked, masked, masker, oreads, radome, ramose, resoak, roamed, sarode, smoked, smoker, soaked, soaker, soared.

-3 letters: adore, amoks, armed, arose, asked, asker, dames, dares, darks, dears, demos, derma, derms, doers, domes, dorks, dorms, dorsa, doser, drake, drams, dream, dreks, eskar, kames, madre, maker, makes, makos, mares, marks, marse, maser, meads, merks, modes, mokes, morae, moras, mores, morse, oared, okras, omers, oread, raked, rakes, rased, reads, reams, redos, resod, roads, roams, rosed, saker, samek, sarod, smear, smerk, smoke.

-4 letters: ados, aero, amok, ares, arks, arms, arse, daks, dame, dams, dare, dark, dear, demo, derm, desk, doer, does, dome, doms, dore, dork, dorm, dors, dose, dram, drek, ears, eras, eros, kaes, kame, keas, koas, kore, kors, made, mads, maes, make, mako, mare, mark, mars, mask, mead, merk, mesa, moas, mode, mods, moke, mora, more, mors, mosk, oaks, oars, odea, odes, okas, okes, okra, omer, orad, ores, osar, rads, rake, rams, rase, read, ream, redo, reds, rems, road, roam, rode, rods, roes, roms, rose, sade, sake, same, sard, sark, seam, sear, sera, soak, soar, soda, soke, soma, some, sora, sord, sore.

-5 letters: ado, ads, are, ark, arm, ars, ask, dak, dam, doe, dom, dor, dos, ear, eds, ems, era, ers, kae, kas, kea, koa, kor, kos, mad, mae, mar, mas, med, moa, mod, mor, mos, oak, oar, ode, ods, oes, oka, oke, oms, ora, ore, ors, ose, rad, ram, ras, red, rem, res, rod, roe, rom, sad, sae, sea, ser, ska, sod, som.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-k-m-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: kaiserdom, oddsmaker.

 

+2 letters: dockmaster, kaiserdoms, oddsmakers, postmarked.

 

+3 letters: dockmasters, meadowlarks.

 

+4 letters: archdukedoms.

 

+5 letters: holidaymakers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DARKSOME


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 41 52 4B 53 4F 4D 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-    .-.    -.-    ...    ---    --    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000001 01010010 01001011 01010011 01001111 01001101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#65 &#82 &#75 &#83 &#79 &#77 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0041 0052 004B 0053 004F 004D 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3835524553494739

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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