darkling

The word “darkling” has 2 syllables: dark-ling

It's pronounced as /ˈdɑːrk.lɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for darkling?

In the thesaurus, “darkling” has 49 synonyms and 41 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for darkling along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for darkling

  • beclouded
  • befogged
  • black
  • caliginous
  • clouded
  • cloudy
  • crepuscular
  • dark
  • darkened
  • darkish
  • darksome
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • foggy
  • fuliginous
  • gloomy
  • gray
  • grey
  • lackluster
  • leaden
  • lightless
  • misty
  • moonless
  • murky
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • pale
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • rayless
  • shadowlike
  • shadowy
  • shady
  • smoggy
  • somber
  • sombre
  • soupy
  • starless
  • stygian
  • sunless
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • twilit
  • unlit

Antonyms for darkling

  • ablaze
  • agleam
  • aglitter
  • alight
  • beaming
  • beamy
  • bright
  • brightened
  • brilliant
  • effulgent
  • floodlighted
  • floodlit
  • glaring
  • glossy
  • glowing
  • highlighted
  • illuminated
  • illumined
  • incandescent
  • lambent
  • light
  • lighted
  • lightsome
  • lit
  • lucent
  • lucid
  • luminous
  • lustrous
  • moonlit
  • moony
  • radiant
  • relucent
  • resplendent
  • shining
  • shiny
  • sparkling
  • spotlighted
  • spotlit
  • starlit
  • sunlit
  • ultrabright

Meanings of darkling

  • noun
    1. A creature that lives in the dark.
    2. Darkness.
  • adverb
    1. In the dark; in obscurity.
  • verb
    1. To be dark; to be visible only darkly.
    2. To become dark; to show indistinctly.
  • adjective
    1. Dark; growing dark; darkening.
    2. Obscure; taking place unseen, as if in the dark.

Example Sentences

  • In the darkling forest, mysterious creatures lurked.
  • The traveler ventured forth into the darkling night.
  • The darkling shadows danced on the walls as the fire flickered.
  • The poet penned verses about the darkling depths of the ocean.
  • She wandered through the darkling corridors of the ancient castle.

On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to darkling, such as: ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, beclouded.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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abstruse

  • Greek to me
  • abstract
  • academic
  • academical
  • ambiguous
  • arcane
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  • bewildering
  • clear as dishwater
  • complex
  • complicated
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • cryptic
  • darkling
  • deep
  • disorienting
  • enigmatic
  • enigmatical
  • erudite
  • esoteric
  • hard
  • heavy
  • hermetic
  • hermetical
  • hidden
  • impenetrable
  • incomprehensible
  • inscrutable
  • intricate
  • involved
  • learned
  • muddy
  • mysterious
  • mystic
  • mystical
  • mystifying
  • obscure
  • orphic
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  • perplexing
  • profound
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  • recondite
  • scholarly
  • subtle
  • unanswerable
  • uncanny
  • unfathomable
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  • unknowable
  • vague

caliginous

  • beclouded
  • befogged
  • black
  • clouded
  • cloudy
  • crepuscular
  • dark
  • darkened
  • darkish
  • darkling
  • darksome
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • foggy
  • fuliginous
  • gloomy
  • gray
  • grey
  • lackluster
  • leaden
  • lightless
  • misty
  • moonless
  • murky
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • pale
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • rayless
  • shadowlike
  • shadowy
  • shady
  • smoggy
  • somber
  • sombre
  • soupy
  • starless
  • stygian
  • sunless
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • twilit
  • unlit

dark

  • Cimmerian
  • Delphian
  • Delphic
  • abstruse
  • ambiguous
  • anagogic
  • analphabetic
  • aphotic
  • arcane
  • artless
  • atramentous
  • atrocious
  • bad
  • baffling
  • banned
  • barred
  • base
  • beclouded
  • bedimmed
  • befogged
  • benighted
  • bewildering
  • black
  • blackish
  • blackness
  • blackout
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bleak
  • blue
  • brainless
  • brownout
  • brunet
  • brunette
  • cabalistic
  • caliginous
  • callow
  • candlelight
  • censurable
  • cheerless
  • chill
  • cimmerian
  • circuitous
  • clandestine
  • cloaked
  • close
  • closemouthed
  • clouded
  • cloudiness
  • cloudy
  • cold
  • colorless
  • comfortless
  • complex
  • complicated
  • concealed
  • concealment
  • condemned
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contemptible
  • corrupt
  • covert
  • crepuscular
  • cruel
  • cryptic
  • cursed
  • curst
  • cussed
  • damnable
  • darkened
  • darkening
  • darkish
  • darkling
  • darkness
  • darksome
  • dead of night
  • debased
  • debauched
  • deep
  • defiling
  • degenerate
  • dejected
  • denseness
  • depraved
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • desperate
  • despicable
  • despondent
  • difficult
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dimness
  • dimout
  • dingy
  • dire
  • dirty
  • disallowed
  • discomfiting
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • discouraging
  • discreet
  • disguised
  • disheartening
  • dishonest
  • dishonorable
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • doleful
  • double-edged
  • dour
  • down
  • drab
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • droopy
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • dumb
  • dun
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • eerie
  • eery
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • elliptic
  • elliptical
  • enigmatic
  • enigmatical
  • equivocal
  • errant
  • erring
  • esoteric
  • evening
  • evil
  • evil-minded
  • execrable
  • faint
  • faintness
  • fallen
  • fogginess
  • foggy
  • foolish
  • forbidden
  • forbidding
  • foreboding
  • forlorn
  • foul
  • frowning
  • fuliginous
  • functionally illiterate
  • funereal
  • furtive
  • fuzzy
  • gloaming
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • gloomy
  • glowering
  • glum
  • godforsaken
  • gray
  • grayness
  • green
  • grey
  • grim
  • half-light
  • hangdog
  • haziness
  • hazy
  • hellish
  • hopeless
  • horrible
  • hugger-mugger
  • idiotic
  • idiotical
  • ignoble
  • ignorant
  • ill
  • ill-lighted
  • illegal
  • illiterate
  • imbecile
  • imbecilic
  • immoral
  • impalpable
  • impenetrable
  • improper
  • inappreciable
  • incomprehensible
  • inconsolable
  • incorrect
  • indecent
  • indecipherable
  • indecorous
  • indefinite
  • indirect
  • indistinct
  • indistinguishable
  • inexact
  • inexperienced
  • inexplicable
  • inexplicit
  • infamous
  • infernal
  • iniquitous
  • inky
  • innocent
  • innumerate
  • inscrutability
  • inscrutable
  • intangible
  • interdicted
  • intricate
  • invisible
  • joyless
  • knotty
  • lackluster
  • lamentable
  • leaden
  • libertine
  • lightless
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • loose
  • louring
  • loury
  • lousy
  • low
  • low-minded
  • lowbrow
  • lowering
  • lowery
  • lugubrious
  • lurid
  • masked
  • mean
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • midnight
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • mistiness
  • misty
  • moonless
  • morbid
  • moronic
  • morose
  • mournful
  • muddy
  • murk
  • murkiness
  • murky
  • mysterious
  • mystic
  • mystical
  • mystifying
  • naive
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nebulous
  • nefarious
  • negative
  • night
  • nightfall
  • nighttime
  • noncommittal
  • nonliterate
  • not known
  • noxious
  • obfuscatory
  • obfuscous
  • objectionable
  • obnubilated
  • obscene
  • obscurant
  • obscurantic
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • obscurity
  • obtuse
  • occult
  • offensive
  • ominous
  • opaque
  • oppressive
  • outlawed
  • overcast
  • pale
  • paleness
  • pernicious
  • perplexing
  • perverted
  • pessimistic
  • pestilential
  • philistine
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • plaintive
  • plutonian
  • prohibited
  • proscribed
  • prudent
  • puzzling
  • questionable
  • quiet
  • raw
  • rayless
  • recondite
  • reprehensible
  • reprobate
  • reserved
  • reticent
  • rotten
  • roundabout
  • rude
  • sad
  • saturnine
  • scowling
  • scrofulous
  • seclusion
  • secrecy
  • secret
  • secretive
  • semidarkness
  • semiliterate
  • senseless
  • sepulchral
  • shade
  • shaded
  • shadiness
  • shadowlike
  • shadows
  • shadowy
  • shady
  • shrouded
  • sick
  • silent
  • silly
  • simple
  • sinful
  • sinister
  • smoggy
  • sneak
  • sneaky
  • snide
  • solemn
  • somber
  • somberness
  • sombre
  • sooty
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • soupy
  • sphinxlike
  • starless
  • stealthy
  • stupid
  • stygian
  • sulky
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • surreptitious
  • swart
  • swarthy
  • taciturn
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • thickness
  • threatening
  • tight-lipped
  • tight-mouthed
  • twilight
  • twilit
  • ugly
  • umbra
  • umbrage
  • unanswerable
  • unauthorized
  • unbecoming
  • uncanny
  • uncertain
  • unclean
  • unclear
  • uncommunicative
  • uncultivated
  • uncultured
  • undefined
  • undercover
  • underhand
  • underhanded
  • undetermined
  • uneducated
  • unenlightened
  • unethical
  • unfathomable
  • ungodly
  • unhappy
  • unhealthy
  • uninstructed
  • unknowable
  • unknowledgeable
  • unlawful
  • unlearned
  • unlettered
  • unlighted
  • unlit
  • unprincipled
  • unpropitious
  • unread
  • unrighteous
  • unsavory
  • unschooled
  • unscrupulous
  • unseemly
  • unskilled
  • unsophisticated
  • untaught
  • untrained
  • untutored
  • unwholesome
  • upsetting
  • vague
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • vulgar
  • weird
  • wicked
  • witching hour
  • witless
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • wretched
  • wrong

darkened

  • abased
  • adumbrated
  • angered
  • aphotic
  • atramentous
  • bastardized
  • beclouded
  • bedimmed
  • befogged
  • begrimed
  • besmeared
  • besmirched
  • black
  • blacked out
  • blackened
  • blackish
  • bleared
  • blemished
  • blotted out
  • blurred
  • bristled
  • brooded
  • caliginous
  • camouflaged
  • cheapened
  • cheerless
  • cimmerian
  • cloaked
  • closed in
  • clouded
  • cloudy
  • colored
  • concealed
  • corrupted
  • covered
  • crepuscular
  • curtained
  • dark
  • darkish
  • darkling
  • darksome
  • debased
  • debauched
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • depraved
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dingy
  • dirtied
  • dirty
  • discolored
  • discredited
  • disgraced
  • disguised
  • dishonored
  • dislimned
  • dismal
  • distorted
  • drab
  • dreary
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dun
  • dusk
  • dusked
  • dusky
  • eclipsed
  • faded
  • faint
  • filmy
  • filthy
  • fogged
  • foggy
  • foul
  • fouled
  • frosty
  • frowned
  • fuliginous
  • fumed
  • fuzzy
  • glared
  • gloomed
  • gloomy
  • glowered
  • glowering
  • gray
  • grey
  • grubby
  • hazed
  • hazy
  • hid
  • ill-lighted
  • impenetrable
  • indistinct
  • inky
  • intimidated
  • lackluster
  • leaden
  • lightless
  • loured
  • lowered
  • lowering
  • lurid
  • lusterless
  • marred
  • masked
  • menaced
  • misted
  • misty
  • moonless
  • moped
  • mucky
  • muddied
  • muddy
  • murky
  • nasty
  • nebulous
  • nontranslucent
  • nontransparent
  • nubilous
  • obfuscated
  • obfuscous
  • obliterated
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • opaque
  • overcast
  • overclouded
  • overshadowed
  • pale
  • perverted
  • petted
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • pouted
  • raged
  • rayless
  • roily
  • sad
  • sank
  • scowled
  • screened
  • shaded
  • shadowed
  • shadowlike
  • shadowy
  • shady
  • shamed
  • shrouded
  • smeared
  • smirched
  • smoggy
  • smoky
  • smudged
  • smutted
  • soiled
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sooty
  • soupy
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • squalid
  • stained
  • stared
  • starless
  • steamed
  • stormed
  • stormy
  • stygian
  • subverted
  • sulked
  • sullied
  • sunk
  • sunless
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • tarred
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • thick
  • threatened
  • touched
  • turbid
  • twilit
  • twisted
  • unclean
  • unlighted
  • unlit
  • vague
  • veiled
  • vitiated
  • waned

darkish

  • adusk
  • beclouded
  • bedimmed
  • befogged
  • bistered
  • black
  • broken-down
  • brown
  • brunet
  • caliginous
  • clouded
  • cloudy
  • colorless
  • crepuscular
  • dark
  • dark-hued
  • dark-skinned
  • darkened
  • darkling
  • darksome
  • dilapidated
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dirty
  • discolored
  • drab
  • dreary
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • faded
  • foggy
  • fuliginous
  • gloomy
  • gray
  • grey
  • grimy
  • lackluster
  • leaden
  • lightless
  • misty
  • moonless
  • muddy
  • murky
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • overcast
  • pale
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • rayless
  • run down
  • sable
  • seedy
  • shabby
  • shadowlike
  • shadowy
  • shady
  • smirched
  • smoggy
  • smoky
  • somber
  • sombre
  • soupy
  • starless
  • stygian
  • sullied
  • sunless
  • swart
  • tan
  • tarnished
  • tawny
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • threadbare
  • tired
  • twilight
  • twilit
  • unilluminated
  • unlit
  • veiled

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