Define the word dusky"Dusky" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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]
"dusky" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
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]
"dusky" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "dusky":
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
|
