DUSKY

dusky, dark-skinned, swart, swarthy

(adjective) 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”

dusky, twilight, twilit

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

dusky (comparative duskier, superlative duskiest)

Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).

Having a shade of color that is rather dark.

(dated, literary) Dark-skinned.

Ashen; having a greyish skin coloration.

Synonyms

• (dark-skinned): black, inky, sable, sooty, swarthy

Noun

dusky (plural duskies)

A dusky shark.

A dusky dolphin.

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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