DUSKY Synonyms

• made dim or less bright

• lacking in light; not bright or harsh

• lacking clarity or distinctness

• offering little or no hope

• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

• switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

• become dim or lusterless

• make dim or lusterless

• make dim by comparison or conceal

• become vague or indistinct

• made dim or less bright

• a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain

• deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc

• lacking clarity or distinctness

• lacking strength or vigor

• weak and likely to lose consciousness

• indistinctly understood or felt or perceived

• lacking conviction or boldness or courage

• pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand

• (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

• dark or gloomy

• not clearly expressed or understood

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• difficult to find

• not famous or acclaimed

• not drawing attention

• remote and separate physically or socially

• make less visible or unclear

• make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

• make unintelligible or unclear

• reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• protected from heat and light with shade or shadow

• (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow

• filled with shade

• lacking clarity or distinctness

• lacking in substance

• quiet, dark, or concealed

• not as expected

• of questionable honesty or legality

• filled with shade

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• grave or even gloomy in character

• in a softened tone

• restrained in style or quality

• quieted and brought under control

• not brilliant or glaring

• lacking in light; not bright or harsh

• dark and gloomy

• naturally having skin of a dark color

• being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

• of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

• British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

• popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

• total absence of light

• (board games) the darker pieces

• a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today

• black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

• marked by anger or resentment or hostility

• offering little or no hope

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

• extremely dark

• harshly ironic or sinister

• (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

• distributed or sold illicitly

• (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

• (of coffee) without cream or sugar

• soiled with dirt or soot

• make or become black

• naturally having skin of a dark color

• of the color of black ink

• an artist's brush made of sable hairs

• the expensive dark brown fur of the marten

• a very dark black

• a scarf (or trimming) made of sable

• marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur

• of a dark somewhat brownish black

• of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal

• covered with or as if with soot