mirksome

comparative more mirksome · superlative most mirksome

1. obsoleteDark; gloomy; murky.

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

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

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

   1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book 1, canto 5, verse 28

   Synonyms: cimmerian, dingy, tenebrous