Synonyms: dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy
Definition: naturally having skin of a dark color
Usage: a dark-skinned beauty; gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks; a smile on his swarthy face; `swart' is archaic
Similar words: brunet, brunette
Definition: marked by dark or relatively dark pigmentation of hair or skin or eyes
Usage: a brunette beauty
Synonyms: twilight, twilit, dusky
Definition: lighted by or as if by twilight
Usage: 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
Similar words: dark
Definition: devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
Usage: sitting in a dark corner; a dark day; dark shadows; dark as the inside of a black cat