Dusky /(?)/

Dusk·y

Dusky

a.
  1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
    Through dusky lane and wrangling mart.
  2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
    When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky.
    The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur.
  3. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
    This dusky scene of horror, this melancholy prospect.
  4. Intellectually clouded.
    Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology.