1. dusky - Noun
2. dusky - Adjective
3. dusky - Adjective Satellite
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
Intellectually clouded.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. Henry James
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn. William Wordsworth
O singers, resinous and soft your songs Above the sacred whisper of the pines, Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines, Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs. Jean Toomer
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. Oscar Wilde
The dusky night rides down the sky, And ushers in the morn The hounds all join in glorious cry, The huntsman winds his horn And a-hunting we will go. Henry Fielding
That memorable day died in purple and gold, and just as the last traces of the sunset faded in the west and the star-lilies filled the sky, the full moon looked down over the rim of the valley, and the great rocks, catching the silvery glow, came forth out of the dusky shadows like very spirits. John Muir