(a.) Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
(a.) Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown.
(a.) Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
(a.) Intellectually clouded.
Example Sentences:
(1) A model of the reproductive ecology of female dusky salamanders was used to investigate the allocation scheme that a female might use to maximize her reproductive success.
(2) Edematous right hand with dusky erythematous skin over the dorsum and swelling of the palm with limitation of range of motion were noted on admission.
(3) The findings are compared to other causes of dusky-hued skin in the neonate.
(4) Factors leading to injury included rapid onset of colder temperatures, sudden reuse of snowblowers after storage for the summer, a heavy mid-week storm that created a sense of urgency to clear snow in dusky light conditions after a day at work, frustration as exit chutes became repeatedly clogged with heavy wet snow and limited operator education.
(5) In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky.
(6) Two different forms of Chinese pangolins can be recognized according to the color of their scales, i.e., brown and dusky.
(7) The dusky red skin lesion gradually spread to the right side of her trunk and drained small amount of purulent or serosanguineous fluid.
(8) Our results suggest that there is considerable divergence in Chinese pangolins, and brown and dusky Chinese pangolins may be quite different forms or, at least, belong to different maternal groups.
(9) The Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi Johnson, Schmid, Hyde, Steigerwalt & Brenner, was isolated from the blood of a dusky-footed wood rat, Neotoma fuscipes Baird, in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California.
(10) There was typical pheochromocytoma in areas of dusky red tissue.
(11) Open Mon-Fri 11.30am-1am, Sat 11.30am-2pm, Sun 12.30pm-midnight Sunflower Facebook Twitter Pinterest A jam session at Sunflower Inside this dusky nook of a bar - crowned the best in the city last year, but under threat from developers - the beer choice is bang up to date.
(12) These results are not specific to dusky salamanders, but can be extended to other organisms with similar reproductive characteristics.
(13) The plume of scarlet hair she sported in the role that defined her, as the FBI agent Dana Scully in The X-Files , which ran for nine series between 1993 and 2002 and spawned two movies, is gone, replaced by dusky blond locks.
(14) Politicians who stuff their brains with alcohol, nicotine and amphetamines view ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine as dangerous exotics, like the black death or yellow peril, imported from dusky parts to corrupt the young.
(15) Gross anatomical analysis of the photoactivated brain revealed hemorrhagic dusky discoloration limited to the area of the tissue illuminated.
(16) Deficiency mapping indicates that Andante is located in the 1OE1-2 to 1OF1 region of the X chromosome, close to the miniature-dusky locus.
(17) the "normal" articular cartilage, the fissured and wrinkled articular cartilage, and the yellow or dusky red, markedly thickened, and roughened articular cartilage.
(18) Yersinia pestis antibodies occurred in serum samples from 25 (36%) of 69 black bears (Ursus americanus), one (50%) of two raccoons (Procyon lotor), five (3%) of 170 dusky-footed woodrats (Neotoma fuscipes), and one (less than 1%) of 118 deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus).
(19) Divergence between brown and dusky forms began 0.6 Myr ago, provided the mean rate of sequence divergence is 0.02 per Myr in mtDNA.
(20) We analyzed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) purified from the livers of seven dusky and six brown Chinese pangolins from the same locality, using cleavage patterns from 19 restriction enzymes.
Gloomy
Definition:
(superl.) Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
(superl.) Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysts at RBS said that on the basis of these gloomy figures, industrial output in the eurozone as a whole looked likely to have declined by about 4% in the final quarter of 2008.
(2) On 1 January 1832, he reports that: "The new year to my jaundiced senses bore a most gloomy appearance.
(3) It would be a mistake to rush it.” But, while revealing disappointing trading figures for the Christmas period and a gloomy outlook for 2017 , Wolfson said he did not think Brexit jitters were stopping people from shopping: “It is more the fact that incomes are likely to be squeezed.” Next's gloomy 2017 forecast drags down fashion retail shares Read more Wolfson was one of a handful of senior business leaders to openly back Brexit but has said in the past that the referendum vote was about UK independence, not isolation, and the country should be aiming for “an open, global-facing economy”.
(4) Sales on the high street were much higher than expected this month, rising at their fastest rate in six years as consumers defied the gloomy economic outlook.
(5) He said the fact that the chancellor, George Osborne, had given permission to the Bank of England to pump more economy into the economy in another round of so-called "quantitative easing" – coupled with gloomy employment figures from the US – was evidence of how fragile the economy was.
(6) The gloomy feedback from industry has raised the prospect of a triple-dip recession and a further worsening of the government's finances.
(7) The Lib Dem cabinet minister said he would "tell it as I see it" as he delivered a gloomy economic forecast, predicting "difficult times" ahead.
(8) Microsoft: bitter medicine But the story is gloomy for Microsoft.
(9) Now, however, the new administration of Hassan Rouhani is taking steps to open up Iran to foreigners in an effort to improve its international image after the gloomy years under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and to bring in much-needed foreign currency to an economy reeling from years of sanctions.
(10) Thus, the prognosis of CNS granulocytic sarcoma is not uniformly gloomy if treated aggressively by combined modalities.
(11) The outlook is gloomy in the light of the potential for widespread disruption of normal social and economic activities.
(12) After a bright start to the morning, the day will turn gloomy as the solar wind lashes Britain with energetic particles and an enormous ball of magnetised plasma slams into Earth bringing a few days of geomagnetic storms.
(13) Steven Fletcher's return from long-term injury was one of few positives on another gloomy day for travelling Mackems and the Scotland striker levelled the scores with a fine header after the interval, when he had been brought on for a supposedly angry Ji.
(14) Britain Chancellor George Osborne is to downgrade his growth forecasts for the UK after a series of gloomy business surveys and sharply declining consumer confidence.
(15) With so many gloomy headlines, it would be easy to believe that irreversible runaway climate change is now inevitable .
(16) As our ambient lighting is gradually reduced from a high level, subjects use the following words - bright, gloomy, dim and dark.
(17) Click here for the Magic in the Moonlight trailer Compared with the gloomy ruminations on ageing and aspiration that characterised the well-received Blue Jasmine, which won Cate Blanchett an Oscar , this is Allen going back to the knockabout farce and blithe May-December couplings that populate his lighter films.
(18) The upstairs living room, which I remember from the last time I interviewed her as slightly gloomy, crowded with towers of books and magazines and oppressive paintings and wall hangings, is today brightened by yet more flowers, all in deep shades of orange and red.
(19) This portends a gloomy scenario for the poorer populations of Europe in the 1990s.
(20) The gloomy outlook for the sector came as the music chain HMV followed camera-supplier Jessops into administration after lengthy battles by both companies to unearth business models that could compete with online retailers.