darksome

American  

[dahrk-suhm] / ˈdɑrk səm /

adjective

1. dark; darkish.

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darksome British  

/ ˈdɑːksəm /

adjective

1. literary dark or darkish

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Other Word Forms

• darksomeness noun

Etymology

Origin of darksome

First recorded in 1520–30; dark + -some ¹

Example Sentences

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.

From Literature

‘I would be hating to get this one inside me on a darksome night,’ the BFG said.

From Literature

Helen has larger troubles to contend with, namely the presence of a darksome being called the Screenslaver, whose plan is to transform upstanding citizens into staring zombies by hypnosis, and who seems, from his vocabulary, to have swallowed his regulation dose of Noam Chomsky, Jean Baudrillard, and other prophets of our alienated gloom.

From The New Yorker

Mr. 13-04 and I made our way through the darksome streets.

From Literature

‘There must have been a mighty crowd of dwarves here at one time,’ said Sam; ‘and every one of them busier than badgers for five hundred years to make all this, and most in hard rock too! What did they do it all for? They didn’t live in these darksome holes surely?’

From Literature