Definitions for: 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: brunet, brunette, dark, dark-skinned, swart, swarthy, twilight(a), twilit

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