adjective. Having low diffused light; dim or shadowy.

adjective. Rather dark in color: synonym: dark.

Rather dark; obscure; not luminous; dim: as, a dusky valley.

Rather black; dark-colored; fuscous; not light or bright: as, a dusky brown; the dusky wings of some insects.

Hence, figuratively, gloomy; sad.

adjective. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk.

adjective. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright.

adjective. Gloomy; sad; melancholy.

adjective. Intellectually clouded.

adjective. Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).

adjective. A shade of color that is rather dark.

adjective. dark-skinned

adjective. ashen, greyish skin coloration

noun. A dusky shark.

noun. A dusky dolphin.

adjective. naturally having skin of a dark color

adjective. lighted by or as if by twilight

"Rather call the dusky and dark-haired Twilight, whose pensive face is limned against the western hills, by the name of that fierce and fervid Noon that stands erect under the hot zenith, instinct with the red blood of a thousand summers, casting her glittering tresses abroad upon the south-wind, and holding in her hands the all-unfolded rose of life."