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
duskiest
superlative form of dusky: most dusky
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
1 April 2025
(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; âAlice doesnât live here anymoreâ; âthe children promised not to quarrel any moreâ
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
