mirksome

English

Etymology

mirk +‎ -some

Adjective

mirksome (comparative more mirksome, superlative most mirksome)

1. (obsolete) Dark; gloomy; murky.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 1, canto 5, verse 28:

     Then to her yron wagon she betakes, / And with her beares the fowle welfavourd witch: / Through mirksome aire her ready way she makes.

   • 1600 [1581], Edward, trans. Fairfax, Jerusalem Delivered, book XIII, verse v, translation of La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso:

     And there, in silence deaf and mirksome shade, / His characters and circles vain he made.

Synonyms

• cimmerian, dingy, tenebrous; see also Thesaurus:dark

Related terms

• mirksomeness

References

• “mirksome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.