dusky as an adjective: - 1
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dusky
adjective
1 dusky
Lighted by or as if by twilight:
— The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn.
synonyms: twilight, twilit.
Roget 421:
dark,
darksome†,
darkling;
obscure,
tenebrious†,
sombrous†,
pitch dark,
pitchy,
pitch black;
caliginous†;
black
etc.
(in color)
431.
sunless,
lightless
etc.
(sun)
(light),
etc.
423;
somber,
dusky;
unilluminated
etc.
(illuminate)
etc.
420†;
nocturnal;
dingy,
lurid,
gloomy;
murky,
murksome†;
shady,
umbrageous;
overcast
etc.
(dim)
422;
cloudy
etc.
(opaque)
426;
darkened;
etc.
v..
dark as pitch,
dark as a pit,
dark as Erebus [Lat.].
benighted;
noctivagant†,
noctivagous†.
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2 dusky
Naturally having skin of a dark color:
— Gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks.
synonyms: dark-skinned, swart, swarthy.
verb
Roget 431:
be black
etc.
adj.;
render black
etc.
adj..
blacken,
infuscate†,
denigrate;
blot,
blotch;
smutch†;
smirch;
darken
etc.
421.
black,
sable,
swarthy,
somber,
dark,
inky,
ebony,
ebon,
atramentous†,
jetty;
coal-black,
jet-black;
fuliginous†,
pitchy,
sooty,
swart,
dusky,
dingy,
murky,
Ethiopic;
low-toned,
low in tone;
of the deepest dye.
black as jet
etc.
n.,
black as my hat,
black as a shoe,
black as a tinker's pot,
black as November,
black as thunder,
black as midnight;
nocturnal
etc.
(dark)
421;
nigrescent†;
gray
etc.
432;
obscure
etc.
421.
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Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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