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adj. 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"

dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy

adj. 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"

olive

adj. of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

tawny, tawny-brown

adj. of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather

Mediterranean

adj. of or relating to or characteristic of or located near the Mediterranean Sea; "Mediterranean countries"

grey, gray

adj. intermediate in character or position; "a grey area between clearly legal and strictly illegal"

Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian

adj. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth

aphotic

adj. lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight; "the aphotic depths of the sea where no photosynthesis occurs"

black, pitch-black, pitch-dark

adj. extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"

darkling

adj. (poetic) occurring in the dark or night; "a darkling journey"

Cimmerian

adj. intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglas

dark as the inside of a black cat

adj. (dark)

dimmed, dim

adj. made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"

glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky

adj. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"

lightless, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit

adj. without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"

tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious

adj. dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"

darkened

adj. become or made dark by lack of light; "a darkened house"; "the darkened theater"

shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous

adj. filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"

subfusc

adj. devoid of brightness or appeal; "a subfusc mining town"; "dark subfusc clothing"

adust

adj. burned brown by the sun; "of an adust complexion"- Sir Walter Scott

brown, browned

adj. (of skin) deeply suntanned

dark-haired, dark-coated

adj. covered with dark hair

tanned

adj. converted to leather by a tanning agent

dark

adj. brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes); "dark eyes"

roan

adj. (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey; "a roan horse"

nutbrown

adj. of the color of nuts; "nutbrown hair"

light

adj. characterized by or emitting light; "a room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light"

light, lightsome, tripping

adj. moving easily and quickly; nimble; "the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step"

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