Difference between Dark and Darkling

DARK vs DARKLING: NOUN

Absence of moral or spiritual values
An unenlightened state
Absence of light or illumination
An unilluminated area
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
An obscured or unenlightened state or condition; obscurity; a state of ignorance: as, I am still in the dark regarding his intentions.
A state of concealment; secrecy: as, things done in the dark.
A dark hue; a dark spot or part.
A dark place.
The absence of light; darkness.
An obsolete form of darg.
Pieces of laundry having a dark color.
Absence of light.
A place having little or no light.
Night; nightfall.
A deep hue or color.

Lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture.
Evil in nature or effect; sinister.
Morally corrupt; vicious.
Having richness or depth.
Secret
Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored
(used of color) having a dark hue
Marked by difficulty of style or expression
Showing a brooding ill humor
Causing dejection
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
Served without milk or cream.
Lacking or having very little light.
Lacking brightness.
Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black.
Pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum. Used of the sound (l) in words like full.
Being or having a complexion that is not light in color.
Sullen or threatening.
Characterized by gloom or pessimism; dismal or bleak.
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
Unknown or concealed; mysterious.
Having skin rich in melanin pigments
Not giving performances; closed

Morally black; atrocious; wicked; sinister.
Unenlightened, either mentally or spiritually; characterized by backwardness in learning, art, science, or religion; destitute of knowledge or culture; ignorant; uninstructed; rude: uncivilized: as, the dark places of the earth; the dark ages.
Blind; sightless.
Hence Concealed; secret; mysterious; inscrutable as, keep it dark.
Obscure; not easily perceived or understood; difficult to interpret or explain: as, a dark saying; a dark passage in an author.
Threatening; frowning; gloomy; morose: as, a dark scowl.
Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
Shadowed or black
Wicked or dishonorable
Not giving performances
Closed
Characterized by or producing gloom; dreary; cheerless: as, a dark time in the affairs of the country.
Lacking in light or brightness; shaded; obscure: as, a dark day; the dark recesses of a forest.
Not fair: applied to the complexion: as, the dark-skinned races.
Without light; marked by the absence of light; unilluminated; shadowy: as, a dark night; a dark room.
In the dark; without light.
To make dark; darken; obscure.
To remain in the dark; lurk; lie hidden or concealed.
To grow or become dark; darken.
Not radiating or reflecting light; wholly or partially black or gray in appearance; having the quality opposite to light or white: as, a dark object; a dark color.
(idiom) (in the dark) In secret.
(idiom) (in the dark) In a state of ignorance; uninformed.

Colored, Unilluminated, Gloomy, Moody, Dusky, Stygian, Tenebrous, Unlighted, Darkening, Unlit, Blue, Twilit, Lightless, Dim, Darkened

Pensiveness, Broodingly, Faery, Eldritch, Dantean, Chthonic, Oneiric, Unnamable, Melancholy, Ghostly, Tenebrous, Wraith, Twilit, Stygian, Dark

Colored, Unilluminated, Gloomy, Moody, Dusky, Stygian, Tenebrous, Unlighted, Darkening, Unlit, Blue, Twilit, Lightless, Dim, Darkened

Pensiveness, Broodingly, Faery, Eldritch, Dantean, Chthonic, Oneiric, Unnamable, Melancholy, Ghostly, Tenebrous, Wraith, Twilit, Stygian, Dark

Pie includes a dark theme which is automatically triggered when one uses a dark wallpaper.
If you enjoy the luxury of dark granite countertops and dark cabinets, make sure to create a contrast.
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Irish origin who had dark features, black hair, dark complexion and eyes.
Our dark times were definitely dark but through ruin comes creation.
Dark Armor set that makes you look like Dark Link.
As said earlier Facebook can be a dark dark place.
How dark is too dark as a matter of law?
At the time of this accident the plaintiffs were walking in the dark, on a dark road, wearing dark clothes.
Dark ink includes black, dark blue, dark purple, dark green or dark brown.

They are led by The Darkling, who takes a strong interest in Alina, an orphan who discovers her Grisha gifts late in life.
Something like the thrill of Gone Girl but with romance like the Darkling character.
We are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
More than once Dol had watched a darkling, or a stevedore, I might have offered for her myself.
On a Darkling Plain was sometimes compared with another novel set at Cornell, Charles Thompson's Halfway Down the Stairs (1957).
Its windows, too, save one softly reddened by a remote lamp, reflected only the darkling sky.
Find out how a mealworm changes into an adult darkling beetle.
Lone Star ticks, maggots, darkling beetles and lice mites.
The darkling elder casts darkness without any components.
Or could you be dealing with a darkling?