Usually means: Gloomy, dimly lit or obscure.
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  1. darksome: Merriam-Webster
  2. darksome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. darksome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. darksome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. darksome: Wordnik
  6. darksome: Wiktionary
  7. darksome: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. darksome: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Darksome, darksome: Dictionary.com
  10. Darksome: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. darksome: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Darksome: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. darksome: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. darksome: FreeDictionary.org
  15. darksome: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darksome: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darksome: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. darksome: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  (literary, poetic) Characterized by darkness; gloomy, obscure.

Similar:
shadowy, sombre, tenebrous, murky, bedarkened, gloomy, darkling, obfuscous, sombrous, grimdark, more...

Types:
dim, gloomy, dreary, murky, dark, more...

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Similar:
shadowy, sombre, tenebrous, murky, bedarkened, gloomy, darkling, obfuscous, sombrous, grimdark, more...

Types:
dim, gloomy, dreary, murky, dark, more...



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