English-Thai Dictionary

dusky

A ที่ มืด สลัว  ti-mued-sa-lua

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DUSKY

a. 1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; as a dusky valley.
A dusky torch.
2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as a dusky brown.
Dusky clouds.
3. Gloomy; sad.
This dusky scene of horror.
4. Intellectually clouded; as a dusky sprite.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DUSKY

DUSKY Dusk "y, a.

 

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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

dusky

dusk y |ˈdəskē ˈdəski | ▶adjective ( duskier, duskiest ) darkish in color: dusky red | a dusky complexion. • dated used in euphemistic or poetic reference to black or other dark-skinned people: a dusky Moorish maiden. • literary dim: dusky light came from a small window. • [ attrib. ] used in names of animals with dark coloration, e.g., dusky dolphin, dusky warbler. DERIVATIVES dusk i ly |-kəlē |adverb, dusk i ness noun

 

dusky wing

dusk y wing ▶noun a small, dark-winged butterfly of the skipper family, found in North America. [Genus Erynnis, family Hesperiidae; the species are very difficult to tell apart. ]

 

Oxford Dictionary

dusky

dusky |ˈdʌski | ▶adjective ( duskier, duskiest ) darkish in colour: dusky red | a dusky complexion. • dated used in euphemistic or poetic reference to black or other dark-skinned people: a dusky Moorish maiden. • literary dim: dusky light came from a small window. • [ attrib. ] used in names of animals with dark coloration, e.g. dusky dolphin, dusky warbler. DERIVATIVES duskily adverb, duskiness noun

 

dusky wing

dusk y wing ▶noun a small, dark-winged butterfly of the skipper family, found in North America. [Genus Erynnis, family Hesperiidae; the species are very difficult to tell apart. ]

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

dusky

dusky adjective 1 the dusky countryside: shadowy, dark, dim, gloomy, murky, shady; unlit, unilluminated; sunless, moonless. ANTONYMS bright. 2 dated a dusky complexion: dark-skinned, dark, olive-skinned, swarthy, ebony, black; tanned, bronzed, coppery, brown. ANTONYMS fair.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

dusky

dusky adjective she looked out into the dusky countryside: shadowy, dark, darkish, dim, gloomy, murky, shady, cloudy, misty, hazy, foggy; unlit, unlighted, unilluminated, sunless, moonless; literary crepuscular, tenebrous; rare Stygian, Cimmerian, Tartarean, caliginous. ANTONYMS bright.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

dusky

dusk y /dʌ́ski /形容詞 ｟やや文 ｠1 暗い色合いの, (色がきつくなく )柔らかな .2 薄暗い, ぼんやりとした .3 ｟やや古 /遠回しに ｠(肌が )浅黒い (!時に無礼に受け取られる ) .