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Dusky

Dusky Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Dusky? [adj] 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) [adj] 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 \| Synonyms for Dusky: brunet \| brunette \| dark \| dark-skinned \| swart \| swarthy \| twilight(a) \| twilit Related Terms \| Find terms related to Dusky: acheronian \| ambiguous \| amphibological \| black \| blackish \| bleak \| brunet \| caliginous \| cheerless \| crepuscular \| dark \| dark-colored \| dark-complexioned \| darkish \| dark-skinned \| darksome \| desolate \| dim \| dimmish \| dimpsy \| dismal \| double-edged \| double-faced \| drear \| dusk \| ebony \| equivocal \| evening \| evensong \| funereal \| gloomy \| grave \| joyless \| murk \| murksome \| murky \| nigrescent \| nubilous \| obscure \| opaque \| sable \| sad \| semidark \| shadowy \| shady \| sibylline \| sober \| somber \| sombrous \| subfusc \| sunsetty \| swart \| swarth \| swarthy \| tenebrous \| twilight \| twilighty \| unilluminated \| unlit \| vesper \| vespertine See Also \| Dusky In Webster's Dictionary \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.

Dusky Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dusky?

[adj] 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)
[adj] 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"

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Dusky In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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