dusky
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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[1]:
- 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.
- Having 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, literary) Dark-skinned.
- 1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24:
- You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff.
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- 1911, James Creelman, Diaz: Master of Mexico[2], D. Appleton and Company, page v:
- 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; having a greyish skin coloration.
- The patient was in shock and had a dusky skin tone.
Synonyms
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.
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