Dusky

Definition of Dusky

Dusk´y
a.1.Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.
- Keble.
2.Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.
- Dryden.
The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.
- Hawthorne.
3.Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect.
- Bentley.
4.Intellectually clouded.
Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology.
- Sir P. Sidney.

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acheronian, ambiguous, amphibological, blackish, bleak, brunet, caliginous, cheerless, crepuscular, dark-colored, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darksome, desolate, dim, dimmish, dimpsy, dismal, double-edged, double-faced, drear, dusk, ebony, equivocal, evening, evensong, funereal, grave, joyless, murk, murksome, murky, nigrescent, nubilous, obscure, sad, semidark, shadowy, shady, sibylline, sober, somber, sombrous, subfusc, sunsetty, swart, swarth, tenebrous, twilight, twilighty, unilluminated, unlit, vesper, vespertine
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