Word Meanings - DUSKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: DUSKY

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DUSKY)

• Dark
• Black
• dusky
• sable
• swarthy
• opaque
• obscure
• enigmatical
• recondite
• abstruse
• unintelligible
• blind
• ignorant
• besotted
• benighted
• dim
• shadowy
• inexplicable
• secret
• mysterious
• hidden
• murky
• nebulous
• cheerless
• dismal
• gloomy
• sombre
• joyless
• mournful
• sorrowful
• Dingy
• Dull
• rusty
• bedimmed
• soiled
• tarnished
• dimly
• colorless
• dead
• Sombre
• grave
• dark
• cloudy
• funereal
• pensive
• melancholy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DUSKY)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to DUSKY)

• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• PENSIVE
  weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares
• OPAQUENESS
  The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity. Dr. H. More.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• BESOTTINGLY
  In a besotting manner.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• SOILY
  Dirty; soiled. Fuller.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• SOILURE
  Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.
• BLINDMAN'S BUFF
  A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.
• DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
  1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• REPLEVISABLE
  Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• DISPENSABLE
  1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. 2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.