dusky

dusky is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
2. adjective. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
3. adjective. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
4. adjective. Intellectually clouded.
5. adjective. naturally having skin of a dark color

   "a dark-skinned beauty"

   "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"

   Synonyms: swart, swarthy

6. adjective. lighted by or as if by twilight-Henry Fielding

   "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"

   "the twilight glow of the sky"

   Synonyms: twilight, twilit

Synonyms

swart, swarthy, twilight, twilit

Common word forms

duskier, duskily, duskiest

Words from these letters

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