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class='vi' role='text'>//dubious about a diet that claims I can eat all I want and still lose weight
Synonyms
distrustful doubtful hinky [slang] mistrustful skeptical suspicious trustless uncertain unconvinced undecided unsettled unsure
Related Words
ambivalent conflicted equivocal
diffident insecure
halting hesitant indecisive irresolute vacillating wavering
Synonymous Phrases
on the fence
Near Antonyms
assured confident sanguine self-assured
decisive determined resolute
Antonyms
certain convinced positive sure
dusky
adjective
ˈdə-skē
dusk​i​er; dusk​i​est

Definition

  • somewhat dark in color
    specifically having dark skin
  • marked by slight or deficient light shadowy
Other Words
  • dusk​i​ly ˈdə-skə-lē adverb
  • dusk​i​ness ˈdə-skē-nəs noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
black caliginous dark darkened darkish darkling darksome dim dimmed dusk gloomy lightless murky obscure obscured pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy rayless somber (or sombre) stygian tenebrific tenebrous unlit
Antonyms
bright brightened brilliant illuminated illumined light lit (or lighted) lightsome lucent lucid luminous
Examples
  • //in the dusky depths of the dungeon
First Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1
class='vi' role='text'>//dubious about a diet that claims I can eat all I want and still lose weight
Synonyms
distrustful doubtful hinky [slang] mistrustful skeptical suspicious trustless uncertain unconvinced undecided unsettled unsure
Related Words
ambivalent conflicted equivocal
diffident insecure
halting hesitant indecisive irresolute vacillating wavering
Synonymous Phrases
on the fence
Near Antonyms
assured confident sanguine self-assured
decisive determined resolute
Antonyms
certain convinced positive sure
dusky
adjective
ˈdə-skē
dusk​i​er; dusk​i​est

Definition

  • somewhat dark in color
    specifically having dark skin
  • marked by slight or deficient light shadowy
Other Words
  • dusk​i​ly ˈdə-skə-lē adverb
  • dusk​i​ness ˈdə-skē-nəs noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
black caliginous dark darkened darkish darkling darksome dim dimmed dusk gloomy lightless murky obscure obscured pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy rayless somber (or sombre) stygian tenebrific tenebrous unlit
Antonyms
bright brightened brilliant illuminated illumined light lit (or lighted) lightsome lucent lucid luminous
Examples
  • //in the dusky depths of the dungeon
First Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1
class='vi' role='text'>//dubious about a diet that claims I can eat all I want and still lose weight
Synonyms
distrustful doubtful hinky [slang] mistrustful skeptical suspicious trustless uncertain unconvinced undecided unsettled unsure
Related Words
ambivalent conflicted equivocal
diffident insecure
halting hesitant indecisive irresolute vacillating wavering
Synonymous Phrases
on the fence
Near Antonyms
assured confident sanguine self-assured
decisive determined resolute
Antonyms
certain convinced positive sure
dusky
adjective
ˈdə-skē
dusk​i​er; dusk​i​est

Definition

  • somewhat dark in color
    specifically having dark skin
  • marked by slight or deficient light shadowy
Other Words
  • dusk​i​ly ˈdə-skə-lē adverb
  • dusk​i​ness ˈdə-skē-nəs noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
black caliginous dark darkened darkish darkling darksome dim dimmed dusk gloomy lightless murky obscure obscured pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy rayless somber (or sombre) stygian tenebrific tenebrous unlit
Antonyms
bright brightened brilliant illuminated illumined light lit (or lighted) lightsome lucent lucid luminous
Examples
  • //in the dusky depths of the dungeon
First Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1
class='vi' role='text'>//dubious about a diet that claims I can eat all I want and still lose weight
Synonyms
distrustful doubtful hinky [slang] mistrustful skeptical suspicious trustless uncertain unconvinced undecided unsettled unsure
Related Words
ambivalent conflicted equivocal
diffident insecure
halting hesitant indecisive irresolute vacillating wavering
Synonymous Phrases
on the fence
Near Antonyms
assured confident sanguine self-assured
decisive determined resolute
Antonyms
certain convinced positive sure
dusky
adjective
ˈdə-skē
dusk​i​er; dusk​i​est

Definition

  • somewhat dark in color
    specifically having dark skin
  • marked by slight or deficient light shadowy
Other Words
  • dusk​i​ly ˈdə-skə-lē adverb
  • dusk​i​ness ˈdə-skē-nəs noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
black caliginous dark darkened darkish darkling darksome dim dimmed dusk gloomy lightless murky obscure obscured pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy rayless somber (or sombre) stygian tenebrific tenebrous unlit
Antonyms
bright brightened brilliant illuminated illumined light lit (or lighted) lightsome lucent lucid luminous
Examples
  • //in the dusky depths of the dungeon
First Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1
class='vi' role='text'>//dubious about a diet that claims I can eat all I want and still lose weight
Synonyms
distrustful doubtful hinky [slang] mistrustful skeptical suspicious trustless uncertain unconvinced undecided unsettled unsure
Related Words
ambivalent conflicted equivocal
diffident insecure
halting hesitant indecisive irresolute vacillating wavering
Synonymous Phrases
on the fence
Near Antonyms
assured confident sanguine self-assured
decisive determined resolute
Antonyms
certain convinced positive sure
dusky
adjective
ˈdə-skē
dusk​i​er; dusk​i​est

Definition

  • somewhat dark in color
    specifically having dark skin
  • marked by slight or deficient light shadowy
Other Words
  • dusk​i​ly ˈdə-skə-lē adverb
  • dusk​i​ness ˈdə-skē-nəs noun
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
black caliginous dark darkened darkish darkling darksome dim dimmed dusk gloomy lightless murky obscure obscured pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy rayless somber (or sombre) stygian tenebrific tenebrous unlit
Antonyms
bright brightened brilliant illuminated illumined light lit (or lighted) lightsome lucent lucid luminous
Examples
  • //in the dusky depths of the dungeon
First Known Use
1542, in the meaning defined at sense 1