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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dusky \Dusk"y\, adjective
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. --Keble.
2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. --Bacon.
When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. --Dryden.
The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. --Hawthorne.
3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. --Bentley.
4. Intellectually clouded.
Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. --Sir P. Sidney.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dusky
adjective
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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