Adjective

(er)

Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).

I like it when it is dusky , just before the street lights come on.

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A shade of color that is rather dark.

The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.

(dated) dark-skinned

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ashen, greyish skin coloration

This man in shock has a silver colored dusky skin tone.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not perfect.

* Shakespeare

Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect .

* Milton

Nothing imperfect or deficient left / Of all that he created.

* Alexander Pope

Then say not man's imperfect , Heaven in fault; / Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought.

(botany) unisexual: having either male (with stamens) or female (with pistil) flowers, but not with both.

(taxonomy) Known or expected to be polyphyletic, as of a form taxon.

(obsolete) Lacking some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.

* Jeremy Taylor

He stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person.