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Antonyms for duskest
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : duhsk |
Phonetic Transcription : dʌsk |
- apparent
- bright
- brilliant
- cheerful
- clean
- clear
- distinct
- distinguished
- encouraging
- evident
- explicit
- famous
- favorable
- good
- happy
- hopeful
- illuminated
- intelligent
- inviting
- joyful
- known
- light
- lively
- lucid
- luminous
- manifest
- moral
- obvious
- perceptible
- plain
- pleasant
- pleased
- radiant
- shining
- smart
- sparkling
- sunny
- understood
- unobscured
- visible
- vivacious
- vivid
Definition of duskest
Origin :- c.1200, dosk "obscure, to become dark," perhaps from Old English dox "dark-haired, dark from the absence of light" (cognate with Swedish duska "be misty," Latin fuscus "dark," Sanskrit dhusarah "dust-colored;" also cf. Old English dosan "chestnut-brown," Old High German tusin "pale yellow") with transposition of -k- and -s-, perhaps via a Northumbrian variant (cf. colloquial ax for ask). But OED notes that "few of our words in -sk are of OE origin." A color word originally; the sense of "twilight" is recorded from 1620s.
- As in murky : adj gloomy, obscure
- As in obscure : adj cloudy, shadowy
- As in tenebrous : adj dark, ominous
- As in dark : adj lack of light
- As in dim : adj darkish
Synonyms for duskest
- ambiguous
- amphibological
- aphotic
- atramentous
- black
- blackish
- blah
- bleary
- blurred
- caliginous
- cheerless
- cimmerian
- clouded
- cloudy
- crepuscular
- dark
- darkened
- dense
- dim
- dingy
- dirty
- dismal
- drab
- dreary
- dull
- dun
- dusk
- dusky
- equivocal
- faded
- faint
- filthy
- flat
- foggy
- foul
- fuliginous
- fuzzy
- gloomy
- glowering
- gray
- grimy
- grubby
- ill-defined
- ill-lighted
- impenetrable
- indistinct
- inky
- lackluster
- lightless
- lowering
- lurid
- mat
- misty
- monotone
- monotonous
- mucky
- muddy
- murky
- muted
- nasty
- nebulous
- nubilous
- obfuscated
- obfuscous
- obscure
- obscured
- opaque
- overcast
- pale
- pitch-black
- pitch-dark
- pitchy
- poorly lit
- rayless
- roily
- sad
- shaded
- shadowy
- shady
- smoky
- somber
- sooty
- squalid
- stormy
- stygian
- sullied
- sunless
- tarnished
- tenebrous
- turbid
- umbrageous
- uncertain
- unclean
- unclear
- unexplicit
- unilluminated
- unintelligible
- unlighted
- unlit
- vague
- veiled
- weak
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