dusky, dark-skinned, swart, swarthy
(adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color; âa dark-skinned beautyâ; âgold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeksâ; âa smile on his swarthy faceâ; ââswartâ is archaicâ
dusky, twilight, twilit
(adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight; âThe dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the mornâ-Henry Fielding; âthe twilight glow of the skyâ; âa boat on a twilit riverâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
duskier
comparative form of dusky
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Source: Wiktionary
Dusk"y, a.
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.
2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.
3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley.
4. Intellectually clouded. Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. Sir P. Sidney.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; âshe got a bargain at the auctionâ; âthe stock was a real buy at that priceâ
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
