dusky
dusky is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley.
- 3.Intellectually clouded. Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. Sir P. Sidney.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- atramentous
- black
- blackamoor
- blacken
- blackness
- blot
- blotch
- buck
- charcoal
- chiaroscuro
- coal
- coal-black
- color
- coon
- crow
- dark
- darken
- darkness
- denigrate
- derogatory
- dingy
- dye
- ebon
- ebony
- for
- fuliginous
- gray
- hat
- infuscate
- infuscation
- ink
- inky
- ivory
- jet
- jet-black
- jetty
- lampblack
- light
- lividity
- low
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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