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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. lighted by or as if by twilight;
- Example: "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding
- Example: "the twilight glow of the sky"
- Example: "a boat on a twilit river"
[syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit]

2. naturally having skin of a dark color;
- Example: "a dark-skinned beauty"
- Example: "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"
- Example: "a smile on his swarthy face"
- Example: "`swart' is archaic"
[syn: dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Dusky \Dusk"y\, a. 1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. [1913 Webster] Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] 3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. [1913 Webster] This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. --Bentley. [1913 Webster] 4. Intellectually clouded. [1913 Webster] Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

dusky adj 1: lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river" [syn: dusky, twilight(a), twilit] 2: naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic" [syn: dark- skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "dusky": acheronian, ambiguous, amphibological, black, blackish, bleak, brunet, caliginous, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, dark-colored, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkish, darksome, desolate, dim, dimmish, dimpsy, dismal, double-edged, double-faced, drear, dusk, ebony, equivocal, evening, evensong, funereal, gloomy, grave, joyless, murk, murksome, murky, nigrescent, nubilous, obscure, opaque, sable, sad, semidark, shadowy, shady, sibylline, sober, somber, sombrous, subfusc, sunsetty, swart, swarth, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilighty, unilluminated, unlit, vesper, vespertine