darkly

1. 1.

   without light

   “the river was sliding darkly under the mist”

   Synonymsin darkness
2. 2.

   in a dark glowering menacing manner

   “he stared darkly at her”

Questions about darkly

What does darkly mean?

darkly means "without light". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in darkly?

darkly has 2 syllables: dar-kly. The stress falls on "dar". In IPA it is /ˈdɑɹkli/.

What is another word for darkly?

Close synonyms include in darkness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is darkly a common word?

darkly is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.