About The Word Dusky
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Dusky
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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.
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