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Dustiest vs Duskiest - What's the difference?

dustiest | duskiest |

As adjectives the difference between dustiest and duskiest

is that dustiest is (dusty) while duskiest is (dusky).

dustiest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (dusty)
  • Anagrams

    *

    dusty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered with dust.
  • powdery and resembling dust
  • gray/grey in parts
  • Derived terms

    * dusty miller

    Anagrams

    *

    duskiest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (dusky)

  • dusky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
  • I like it when it is dusky , just before the street lights come on.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}
  • 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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  • :* In the raw attempt to apply the perfected institutions of Anglo-Saxon civilization to the descendants of the dusky races which inhabited Mexico before the discovery of America by Columbus, the Mexican statesmen of 1824 put the principles of democratic government to a terrible ordeal.
  • ashen, greyish skin coloration
  • This man in shock has a silver colored dusky skin tone.

    Noun

    (duskies)
  • A dusky shark.
  • A dusky dolphin.