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dusky a. 微暗的,忧郁的 微暗的,忧郁的 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" [ synonym: { dusky}, { 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" [ synonym: { dark- skinned}, { dusky}, { swart}, { swarthy}] 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] 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
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- DUSKY Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of DUSKY is somewhat dark in color; specifically : having dark skin How to use dusky in a sentence
- DUSKY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
DUSKY definition: somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy See examples of dusky used in a sentence
- DUSKY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
A bright, happy smile lightened in her eye, and warmed her slightly dusky features with a glow
- DUSKY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Thirty feet deep in the open ocean, the blue varies from transparent to a dusky dark that seems to swallow light
- Dusky - definition of dusky by The Free Dictionary
1 Having low diffused light; dim or shadowy 2 Rather dark in color: dusky blue See Synonyms at dark
- dusky - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Adjective dusky (comparative duskier, superlative duskiest) Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening)
- Dusky Definition Meaning | YourDictionary
Dusky definition: Having low diffused light; dim or shadowy
- dusky adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . .
Definition of dusky adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
- dusky, adj. n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the word dusky, one of which is considered offensive See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
- Dusky Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
Britannica Dictionary definition of DUSKY : somewhat dark a dusky brown in the dusky firelight
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