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dusky

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dusk·y  (dsk)
adj. dusk·i·er, dusk·i·est
1. Characterized by little or inadequate light; shadowy.
2. Rather dark in color: dusky skin. See Synonyms at dark.

duski·ly adv.
duski·ness n.

dusky [ˈdʌskɪ]
adj duskier, duskiest
1. dark in colour; swarthy or dark-skinned
2. dim
duskily  adv
duskiness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.duskydusky - 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"
dark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
2.dusky - 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"
archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
brunet, brunette - marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes; "a brunette beauty"

dusky
adjective
1. dim, twilight, shady, shadowy, gloomy, murky, cloudy, overcast, crepuscular, darkish, twilit, tenebrous, caliginous (archaic) He was walking down the road one dusky evening.
2. dark, swarthy, dark-complexioned I could see dusky girls with flowers about their necks.
Translations
dusky [ˈdʌskɪ] ADJ [pink, blue] → oscuro; [complexion] → moreno
dusky [ˈdʌski] adj [evening] → sombre
dusky pink → vieux rose
dusky
adj (+er) (liter) room, evening, skin, colourdunkel; persondunkelhäutig; lightschwach; the light in the room was duskyes war dämmerig im Zimmer; dusky pinkaltrosa
dusky [ˈdʌskɪ] adj (complexion, room, light) → scuro/a
dusky pink → rosa antico inv
dusky [ˈdʌskɪ] adj (complexion, room, light) → scuro/a
dusky pink → rosa antico inv


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Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
I had read Byron's imitation of him before that, and admired it prodigiously, and when my father got me the book--as usual I did not know where or how he got it--not all the tall forms that moved before the eyes of haunted bards in the dusky vale of autumn could have kept me from it.
Every one was disposed to be kind to little Ellen Mingott, though her dusky red cheeks and tight curls gave her an air of gaiety that seemed unsuitable in a child who should still have been in black for her parents.
 
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