'Dusky' definitions:
Definition of 'dusky'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Definition of 'Dusky'
From: GCIDE
- Dusky \Dusk"y\, a.
- 1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. [1913 Webster]
- Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. [1913 Webster]
- This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Intellectually clouded. [1913 Webster]
- Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dusky'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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