Dusky

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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: {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}, {swart}, {swarthy}]
       [also: {duskiest}, {duskier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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