Definition of "darkling" [dark•ling]

• In the dark. (adverb)
• Occurring or enacted in the dark. (adjective)
• Dark; dim. (adjective)
• The dark: "She carried some rugs for me through the shrubbery in the darkling” ( H.G. Wells). (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Then clipt and clung about his breast enveiled in darkling room."
• "And died in darkling air no more to be for ever shown.’"
• "Plus, if I just threw in some multisyllabic words, extended my sentences until each was a paragraph long, and used "darkling" a few times, I'd be the Faulkner of Phoenix."