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dusky
English
Etymology
dusk +? -y
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?s.ki/
- Rhymes: -?ski
Adjective
dusky (comparative duskier, superlative duskiest)
- Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
- Having a shade of color that is rather dark.
- (dated, literary) Dark-skinned.
- Ashen; having a greyish skin coloration.
Synonyms
- (dark-skinned): black, inky, sable, sooty, swarthy
Translations
Noun
dusky (plural duskies)
- A dusky shark.
- A dusky dolphin.
- A dusky grouse.
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sunless
English
Etymology
sun +? -less
Adjective
sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)
- Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
- (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
- 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor:
- When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless, her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.
- 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor:
Derived terms
- sunlessly
- sunlessness
Translations
Anagrams
- unlesss
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