\Dark"ly\, adv. 1. With imperfect light, clearness, or knowledge; obscurely; dimly; blindly; uncertainly. What fame to future times conveys but darkly down. --Dryden. so softly dark and darkly pure. --Byron. 2. With a dark, gloomy, cruel, or menacing look. Looking darkly at the clerguman. --Hawthorne.