Meaning of darksome | Babel Free

Definitions

Characterized by darkness; gloomy, obscure.

literary, poetic

Examples

“His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth. / As if he now deuiſ’d some Stratageme: / Or meant to pierce Auernus darkſome vauts. / To pull⟳ the triple headed dog from hell.”

“That sometimes from the savage den, / And sometimes from the darksome shade, / And sometimes staring up at once / In green and sunny glade.”

“I did not like⟳ re-entering Thornfield. To pass⟳ its threshold was to return⟳ to stagnation: to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek⟳ my own⟳ lonely little room, and then to meet⟳ tranquil Mrs. Fairfax, and spend⟳ the long winter evening with her and her only, was to quell wholly the faint excitement wakened by my walk⟳,—to slip⟳ again over my faculties the viewless fetters of an uniform and too still existence; of an existence whose very privileges of security and ease I was becoming incapable of appreciating.”

“They […] ate the messes compounded for them in a darksome cupboard, known as the kitchen, by old Nanon the cook⟳, purblind, stone-deaf, and all but imbecile, and popularly supposed to be the venerable mother of Madame Magnotte.”

CEFR level