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ˈdʌs kidusky
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dusky
Strictly, that which is black is absolutely destitute of color; that which is dark is absolutely destitute of light. In common speech, however, a coat is black, tho not optically colorless; the night is dark, tho the stars shine. That is obscure, shadowy, or shady from which the light is more or less cut off. Dusky is applied to objects which appear as if viewed in fading light; the word is often used, as are swart and swarthy, of the human skin when quite dark, or even verging toward black. Dim refers to imperfection of outline, from distance, darkness, mist, etc., or from some defect of vision. Opaque objects, as smoked glass, are impervious to light. Murky is said of that which is at once dark, obscure, and gloomy; as, a murky den; a murky sky. Figuratively, dark is emblematic of sadness, agreeing with somber, dismal, gloomy, also of moral evil; as, a dark deed. Of intellectual matters, dark is now rarely used in the old sense of a dark saying, etc. See MYSTERIOUS; OBSCURE.
Compare synonyms for LIGHT.
Synonyms:
black, dark, dim, dismal, gloomy, murky, mysterious, obscure, opaque, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, swart, swarthyAntonyms:
bright, brilliant, clear, crystalline, dazzling, gleaming, glowing, illumined, light, lucid, luminous, radiant, shining, transparent, white
Princeton's WordNet
dusky, twilight(a), twilitadjective
lighted by or as if by twilight
"The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
Antonyms:
blonde, blond, light, light-haireddark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthyadjective
naturally having skin of a dark color
"a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic"
Synonyms:
twilight(a), dark, dark-skinned, swarthy, twilit, coloured, swart, non-whiteAntonyms:
light, blond, light-haired, blonde
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#271 | black | |
#1640 | dark | |
#9389 | dim | |
#9735 | mysterious | |
#11816 | coloured | |
#13380 | obscure | |
#17229 | shady | |
#17805 | opaque | |
#20758 | sable | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#28539 | dismal | |
#28701 | gloomy | |
#38136 | murky | |
#38689 | shadowy | |
#45530 | dusky | |
#47762 | somber | |
#59538 | sombre | |
#75558 | swart | |
#109912 | swarthy |
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Sandbar sharks were all along the coast, while most of the dusky sharks were off North Carolina, we captured a bull shark for the first time since 2001, and recaptured 10 sharks previously tagged by our program and two sharks tagged by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
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