darkest
- 1Superlative of dark.
The forest felt darkest where the thick canopy shut out the sky.
Her sweater was the darkest shade of blue in the whole collection.
Note
The regular one-word superlative, built with -est rather than with most, as short adjectives usually are. It can carry the meanings of dark: the least light, the deepest hue, even the most obscurely expressed. Before a noun it takes the (the darkest shade of blue). After a verb such as feel or be, when one thing is compared with itself across places or times, the article usually drops: the forest felt darkest by the river.
darkest is a form of dark
dark, adjective: Having little or no light, either because light does not reach a place or because its lamps or lights are not on. Full entry
- Spelling
- dark → darkest: add -est
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