dusky

dusky
    adj 1: 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"
           [syn: {dusky}, {twilight(a)}, {twilit}]
    2: 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" [syn: {dark-
       skinned}, {dusky}, {swart}, {swarthy}]
    

Dusky \Dusk"y\, a.
   1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky
      valley.
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            Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. --Keble.
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   2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black;
      dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. --Bacon.
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            When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            The figure of that first ancestor invested by family
            tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.
                                                  --Hawthorne.
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   3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
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            This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy
            prospect.                             --Bentley.
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   4. Intellectually clouded.
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            Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. --Sir P.
                                                  Sidney.
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61 Moby Thesaurus words for "dusky":
      acheronian, ambiguous, amphibological, black, blackish, bleak,
      brunet, caliginous, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, dark-colored,
      dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkish, 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