| Dusky 1. (a.) Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. 2. (a.) Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. 3. (a.) Gloomy; sad; melancholy. 4. (a.) Intellectually clouded. Thesaurus Entries acheronian, ambiguous, amphibological, black, blackish, bleak, brunet, caliginous, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, dark-colored, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, darkish, darksome, desolate, dim, dimmish, dimpsy, dismal, double-edged, double-faced, drear, dusk, ebony, equivocal, evening, evensong, funereal, gloomy, grave, joyless, murk, murksome, murky, nigrescent, nubilous, obscure, opaque, sable, sad, semidark, shadowy, shady, sibylline, sober, somber, sombrous, subfusc, sunsetty, swart, swarth, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilighty, unilluminated, unlit, vesper, vespertine |