dusky

Adjective

• naturally having skin of a dark color
  • a dark-skinned beauty
    
  • gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks
    
  • a smile on his swarthy face
    
  • `swart' is archaic
    

• lighted by or as if by twilight
  • The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn-Henry Fielding
    
  • the twilight glow of the sky
    
  • a boat on a twilit river
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dark-skinned , swart , swarthy , twilight(a) , twilit