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[ duhs-kee ] / ˈdʌs ki / SEE SYNONYMS FOR dusky ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, dusk·i·er, dusk·i·est.somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy. Older Use: Chiefly Literary. having dark skin. of a dark color. gloomy; sad. Origin of duskyFirst recorded in 1550–60; dusk2 + -y1 OTHER WORDS FROM duskydusk·i·ly, adverbdusk·i·ness, nounWords nearby duskydurzi, Du Sable, Duse, Dushanbe, dusk, dusky, dusky grouse, dusky shark, Dussek, Düsseldorf, dust Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for duskyThe palette was gentle and pretty, focusing on rose pinks, lavenders, dusky mauve, mint, faun and pale lemon. Burberry Prorsum Spring/ Summer 2014|Tom Sykes|September 16, 2013|DAILY BEAST Unless by dusky hordes, you mean Wall Street banksters and well-tanned pols such as Speaker John Boehner. Paul Krugman’s Nasty and Inane Attack on ‘Libertarian Populism’|Nick Gillespie|July 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST The sail of the Nighean Donn flapped, a dusky wing in the darkness. The Divine Adventure etc. (Works vol. 4)|Fiona Macleod The intangible sky was coming nearer and its dusky blue of the night was deepening. The Guns of Europe|Joseph A. Altsheler
I sniffed at the dusky screen of leaves, but had my sniffing for my trouble, as nothing moved there. Cardigan|Robert W. Chambers I can only relate, then, that the image left upon my mind was one of jewels and dusky peach-like loveliness. Tales of Secret Egypt|Sax Rohmer I have told some incidents of her life in my Old Narragansett, so will no longer keep her dusky presence here. Stage-coach and Tavern Days|Alice Morse Earle
British Dictionary definitions for dusky
adjective duskier or duskiestdark in colour; swarthy or dark-skinned dim Derived forms of duskyduskily, adverbduskiness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to duskyfunereal, bleak, brunette, cheerless, cloudy, dark, desolate, dim, dismal, dull, gloomy, joyless, obscure, overcast, sable, shadowy, shady, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight |