dusky

CEFRB2

/ˈdʌs.ki/

adjective

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adjective
Dark or partly dark in color or light.
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adjective
Extra detail
Dark-skinned.

Examples

He was walking down the road one dusky evening.
It was a dusky night.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

Having a shade of color that is rather dark.
Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
Ashen; having a greyish skin coloration.

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In context

I like it when it is dusky, just before the street lights come on.
The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.
The patient was in shock and had a dusky skin tone.

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The blank sky faded from orange to deep purple.

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A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
You have your lovers - dusky beaus / Not made of the poetic stuff / That sports an Apollonian nose, / And wears a sleek Byronic cuff.
1877, Henry Kendall, “Ode to a Black Gin”, in The Australian Town and Country Journal, page 24
I think that he was a little horrified at my cool way of taking the honour, but the fact was that I did not feel overwhelmed with gratitude at the prospect of seeing some savage, dusky queen, however absolute and mysterious she might be, more especially as my mind was full of dear Leo, for whose life I began to have great fears.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
They "stuck on" fairly well, but sometimes these dusky jockeys fell off during the race.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 63
The dusky sons of Mohammed have been having a high old time down at the British India Company’s wharves during the past few days. [. . .] It was the great week of ‘Hobson-Jobson,’ as it is known out East, or the time of the Mohurram.
1903 April 8, Queensland Figaro, Brisbane, page 23, column 2

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Origin

adjective

From dusk + -y.

Deep Dive

adjective

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The blank— sky faded from orange to deep purple.

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Origin

adjective

The blank sky faded from orange to deep purple.