Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.
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.
Gloomy; sad; melancholy. This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. Bentley.
Intellectually clouded. Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology. Sir P. Sidney.
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