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Webster 1913 Edition

Darksome

Dark′some

,

Adj.

Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.

[Poetic]

He brought him through a

darksome

narrow pass
To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold.

Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Darksome

D'ARKSOME

,

Adj.

Dark; gloomy; obscure; as a darksome house; a darksome cloud.

Definition 2024

darksome

darksome

English

Adjective

darksome ‎(comparative more darksome, superlative most darksome)

(poetic) Characterised by darkness; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
- 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.