Friday, December 30, 2011

The opposite of ‘sparkle’ is ‘darkle’


While most of us have seen things shimmer with light and described it as sparkling, there is an equal opposite to sparkle. The word, darkle, means to become cloudy, gloomy, dark, or be concealed in the dark!

Darkle word  originated in the 1800s, and it is believed that the original use of darkle was ‘darkling’.

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