dusky Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite lighted by or as if by twilight
    twilight; twilit.
    • 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
  2. adjective satellite naturally having skin of a dark color
    swart; swarthy; dark-skinned.
    • a dark-skinned beauty
    • gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks
    • a smile on his swarthy face
    • `swart' is archaic

WordNet

Dusk"y adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913