01 a. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
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Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.“Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.” — Keble.
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Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.“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.
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Gloomy; sad; melancholy.“This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect.” — Bentley.
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Intellectually clouded.“Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology.” — Sir P. Sidney.