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dusky (comparative duskier, superlative duskiest)

  1. Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
      A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
  2. A shade of color that is rather dark.
  3. (dated) dark-skinned
    1911, James Creelman, Diaz: Master of Mexico[2], D. Appleton and Company, page v:
    • In the raw attempt to apply the perfected institutions of Anglo-Saxon civilization to the descendants of the dusky races which inhabited Mexico before the discovery of America by Columbus, the Mexican statesmen of 1824 put the principles of democratic government to a terrible ordeal.
  4. ashen, greyish skin coloration
    This man in shock has a silver colored dusky skin tone.



dusky (plural duskies)

  1. A dusky shark.
  2. A dusky dolphin.