Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

endarken

/ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: en-dark-en
IPA: /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To render dark or darker.

Literary; Transitive verb

verb

To becloud, obscure, to obfuscate; to confound.

Literary; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen."
"[…] moral education cannot be […] purely enlightened and enlightening […] it cannot be simply a matter of teaching [people] to calculate the long term profit and the loss, while leaving […] desires to develop independently. It must involve an endarkened and endarkening component, by which [people] are taught precisely to cease [their] calculations, to regard certain paths as forbidden, as places where neither profit nor loss has authority."

Etymology

From en- + darken (see en- (“intensifying prefix”)), modelled on enlighten.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: en

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/
British English: /ɪnˈdɑːkən/

Usage

Inflected Forms

endarkens (present, singular) endarkening (participle, present) endarkened (participle, past) endarkened (past)

Derived Forms

endarkenment

Antonyms

enlighten

Questions

How do you pronounce endarken?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/.
What does endarken mean?: To render dark or darker.
Where does endarken come from?: From en- + darken (see en- (“intensifying prefix”)), modelled on enlighten.

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