Found 3 items, similar to dusky.
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Definition: dusky
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: 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:
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dusky
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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