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Webster 1913 Edition
Dusky
Dusk′y
,Adj.
1.
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk;
as, a
. dusky
valleyThrough
dusky
lane and wrangling mart. Keble.
2.
Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright;
as, a
. dusky
brownBacon.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dusky
DUSKY
,Adj.
1.
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; as a dusky valley.A dusky torch.
2.
Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as a dusky brown.Dusky clouds.
3.
Gloomy; sad.This dusky scene of horror.
4.
Intellectually clouded; as a dusky sprite.Definition 2024
dusky
dusky
English
Adjective
dusky (comparative duskier, superlative duskiest)
- Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
- I like it when it is dusky, just before the street lights come on.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict:
- A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
- A shade of color that is rather dark.
- The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.
- (dated) dark-skinned
-
- In the raw attempt to apply the perfected institutions of Anglo-Saxon civilization to the descendants of the dusky races which inhabited Mexico before the discovery of America by Columbus, the Mexican statesmen of 1824 put the principles of democratic government to a terrible ordeal.
-
- ashen, greyish skin coloration
- This man in shock has a silver colored dusky skin tone.
Translations
dimly lit, as at dusk evening
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dark-skinned — see dark-skinned
Noun
dusky (plural duskies)
- A dusky shark.
- A dusky dolphin.