noun
adj
verb
adv

Textual thesaurus for "dusky"

(adj) dark-skinned, swart, swarthy

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


(adj) twilight, twilit

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