Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
- 2adjective
Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
- 3adjective
Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
- 4adjective
Intellectually clouded.
- 5adjective
naturally having skin of a dark color
"a dark-skinned beauty"
"gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"
- 6adjective
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"
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