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DUSKY
dusky, dark-skinned, swart, swarthy
(adjective) naturally having skin of a dark color; āa dark-skinned beautyā; āgold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeksā; āa smile on his swarthy faceā; āāswartā is archaicā
dusky, twilight, twilit
(adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight; āThe dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the mornā-Henry Fielding; āthe twilight glow of the skyā; āa boat on a twilit riverā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
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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