different between inly vs inky

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English inly, from Old English inl?c (“inner, inward”), equivalent to in +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nli/

Adjective

inly (comparative more inly, superlative most inly)

1. (obsolete) Inward; interior; secret.

Etymology 2

From Middle English inly, inliche, from Old English inl??e (“inwardly”), equivalent to in +? -ly.

Adverb

inly (comparative more inly, superlative most inly)

1. (now rare) Inwardly, within; internally; secretly.
   • 1738, Paul Gerhard, "Thou Hidden Love of God," translated by John Wesley, in The Wesleyan Methodist Hymn Book, London, 1869, p.325, [1]

     Thou hidden love of God, whose height, / Whose depth unfathom'd no man knows; I see from far they beauteous light, / Inly I sigh for thy repose:

   • 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vol. II, Chapter XXXV, [2]

     His heart inly relented,—there was a conflict,—but sin got the victory, and he set all the force of his rough nature against the conviction of his conscience.

   • 1852, Matthew Arnold, "Human Life" in The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867, Oxford University Press, 1909, lines 1-6 [3]

     What mortal, when he saw, / Life's voyage done, his heavenly Friend, / Could ever yet dare tell him fearlessly: / 'I have kept uninfring'd my nature's law; / The inly-written chart thou gavest me / To guide me, I have steer'd by to the end'?

   • 1909, Thomas Hardy, "The Flirt's Tragedy" in Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses, London: Macmillan & Co., 1928, [4]

     Thus tempted, the lust to avenge me / Germed inly and grew.

   • 1914, Rabindranath Tagore, The King of the Dark Chamber, New York: Macmillan, p. 132, [5]

     A mighty forest inly smokes and smoulders before it bursts into a conflagration:

2. (obsolete) Heartily, completely, fully, thoroughly; extremely.

Anagrams

• lyin'

English

Etymology

ink +? -y

Adjective

inky (comparative inkier, superlative inkiest)

1. Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
   • 1870, The Shamrock (volume 8, page 18)

     One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6

     Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.

2. Spattered or stained with ink.
3. (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.

Synonyms

• (dark coloured): black, dark, murky
• (dark-skinned): black, dusky, sable, sooty, swarthy

Antonyms

• bright
• clear
• whitened