Darkling

Definitions: Darkling

Darkling

Adjective

1. Uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure; "a darkling glance"; "secret operatives and darkling conspiracies"-Archibald MacLeish.

2. (poetic) occurring in the dark or night; "a darkling journey".

Date "darkling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Crosswords: Darkling

English words defined with "darkling": darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle ♦ family Tenebrionidae ♦ -ling ♦ Tenebrionidae. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Darkling (2000)

Darkling (1995)

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

Domain	Title
Books	As on a Darkling Plain (reference) Darkling I Listen (reference) Darkling Plain (reference) On a Darkling Plain (reference) On a Darkling Plain (The World of Darkness) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Darkling" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Darkling" is used about 7 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	57.14%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	42.86%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	7	N/A

Expressions using "darkling": darkling beetle ♦ darkling groung beetle. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "darkling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që ndodhet në terr, që ndodhet në errësirë, i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darksome, 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), i errësuar (bedimmed, darkening). (various references)

Bulgarian		скришен (dark), тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, dark, darksome, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, somber, sombre, sooty, unlit), тайно (furtively, hugger mugger, in camera, in private, inwardly, on the quiet, on the sly, privately, privily, secretly, under the counter, under the rose, underground, underhand, underhanded), таен (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, confidential, cryptic, dark, esoteric, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, inside, mystic, occult, private, privy, recondite, secret, sensitive, sneaking, snug, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand), на тъмно, здрачен (crepuscular, dusk). (various references)

Czech		zatemnìný. (various references)

Hungarian		sötét és homályos, rejtve levõ. (various references)

Pig Latin		arklingday.(various references)

Portuguese		sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darksome, 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), no escuro (in the dark), escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, dark, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuse, gloomy, inlace, mirk, moonlight, muddy, murk, murky, obscure, open, overcast, sable, somber, sombre, swart, umber), enigmático (enisle, mysterious, puzzling, unaccountable), � s escuras. (various references)

Romanian		pe întuneric, crepuscular (crepuscular, dusk, twilight, twilit), care se întunecã, care este în întuneric, în întuneric. (various references)

Russian		темнеющий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		u tami, po mraku (dark: in the dark), koji tamni. (various references)

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

Swedish		nattlig (nightly, nocturnal), i mörker (in darkness). (various references)

Turkish		karanlıkta olan, karanlık (clouded, dark, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit). (various references)

Ukranian		у темряві, темний (abstruse, backwoods, black, cimmerian, dark, darksome, lowering, murk, murky, nightly, nigrescent, obscure, occult, opaque, shaded, smutty, somber, sombre), неясний (abstruse, ambiguous, amorphous, blear, blind, blurred, chancy, doubtful, dusk, faint, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, misty, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, obscure, opaque, oracular, oraculous, recondite, shadowy, transcendental, unaccounted for, unclear, undistinguished, woolly, wooly). (various references)

Vietnamese		trong bóng tối, tối mò. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Darkling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darkwing, deroling, dorking. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-k-l-n-r"
	-1 letter: darking, darling, larding, larking.
	-2 letters: aldrin, daring, gradin, lading, laking, ligand, raking.
	-3 letters: algid, algin, align, argil, dinar, drail, drain, drank, drink, garni, glair, gland, gnarl, grail, grain, grand, grind, kiang, laird, liang, liard, lidar, ligan, linga, nadir, nidal, ranid.
	-4 letters: agin, airn, akin, anil, arid, aril, dang, dank, dark, darn, dial, ding, dink, dirk, dirl, drag, gadi, gain, gild, gink, gird, girl, girn, glad, glia, gnar, grad, gran, grid, grin, ilka, kadi, kail, kain, karn, kiln, kina, kind, king, kirn, knar, laid, lain, lair, land, lang, lank, lard, lari, lark, liar, ling, link, lira, nail, nard, nark, ragi, raid, rail, rain, raki, rand, rang, rani, rank, rial, rind, ring, rink.
	-5 letters: aid, ail, ain, air, and, ani, ark, dag, dak, dal, dig, din, gad, gal, gan, gar, gid, gin, ilk, ink, irk, kid, kin, kir, lad, lag, lar, lid, lin, nag, nil, rad, rag, ran, ria, rid, rig, rin.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-k-l-n-r"
	+4 letters: blackbirding, roadblocking.
	+5 letters: blackguarding.
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