darksome

English

Etymology

From dark +‎ -some.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɑːksəm/

Adjective

darksome (comparative more darksome, superlative most darksome)

  1. (poetic, literary) Characterised by darkness; gloomy; obscure
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
      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.
    • 1799, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Love
      That sometimes from the savage den,
      And sometimes from the darksome shade,
      And sometimes staring up at once
      In green and sunny glade.
    • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XII, in Jane Eyre, 1st edition, pages 221-222:
      […] to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, […]
    Synonyms: shaded, cheerless
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