in darkness

1. 1.

   without light

   “the river was sliding darkly under the mist”

   Synonymsdarkly

Questions about in darkness

What does in darkness mean?

in darkness means "without light".

What is another word for in darkness?

Close synonyms include darkly. 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 in darkness a common word?

in darkness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.