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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for dusky:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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"
           [syn: 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" [syn: dark-
       skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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