darkened

1. 1.

   (of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time

   “the darkened margins of the paper”

   Similarold
2. 2.

   become or made dark by lack of light

   “a darkened house”

   “the darkened theater”

   Similardark

Other forms of darkened

comparative

darkenedder·

superlative

darkeneddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about darkened

What does darkened mean?

darkened means "(of fabrics and paper) grown dark in color over time". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in darkened?

darkened has 2 syllables: dar-kened. The stress falls on "dar". In IPA it is /ˈdɑɹkənd/.

Is darkened a common word?

darkened is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.