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dusky a. 微暗的,憂郁的 微暗的,憂鬱的 dusky adj 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" [ synonym: { dusky}, { 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" [ synonym: { dark- skinned}, { dusky}, { swart}, { swarthy}] Dusky \ Dusk" y\, a. 1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. [ 1913 Webster] Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. -- Keble. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark- colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. -- Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy. [ 1913 Webster] This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. -- Bentley. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Intellectually clouded. [ 1913 Webster] Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. -- Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] 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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