Adjective
Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNot for naught had he gained access into darksome cults, had harkened to the grisly whispers of the votaries of Skelos under midnight trees, and read the forbidden iron-bound books of Vathelos the Blind. Robert E. Howard
That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind. Edmund Spenser
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe