dusky English

Meaning dusky meaning

What does dusky mean?

dusky

— adjective (= twilight, twilit) 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

— adjective (= dark-skinned, swart, swarthy) 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

Synonyms dusky synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as dusky?

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dim

dark

gloomy

obscure

swarthy

shadowy

twilit

twilight

swart

darkish

dark-skinned

black

shady

murky

dusk

darksome

blackish

weathered

unlighted

tenebrous

tawny

tanned

subfuscous

sooty

somber

smutty

sheltered

nightly

murk

melancholy

fuscous

fishy

faint

dusky-colored

dingy

deep

dark-colored

dark-brown

crepuscular

cloudy

bleak

blackened

ambiguous

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States Quality Light

Dark

• What words describe a place where there is little light?
  pale dim weak poor bad soft low dull dusky