dusky
AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (2)duskier, duskiest
- 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”Synonyms: twilighttwilitOpposite lightSimilar dark
- 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”Synonyms: dark-skinnedswartswarthyOpposite blondSimilar brunet, brunette
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Dusk′y adjective
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.— John Keble
2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.— John Dryden
The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.— Nathaniel Hawthorne
3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect.— Richard Bentley
4. Intellectually clouded.
Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology.— Sir Philip Sidney
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54