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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective swarthy has 1 sense
- swarthy(s = adj.all) dark-skinned, dusky, swart - 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" Derived form noun swarthiness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Being of a dark hue or dusky complexion; tawny; swart; as, swarthy faces. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains."
[1913 Webster]
swarthy, v. t.
To make swarthy. Cowley. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
swarthy, adj. (swarthier, swarthiest) dark, dark-complexioned.
Derivative
swarthily adv. swarthiness n.
Etymology
var. of obs. swarty (as SWART)
THESAURUS
swarthy
black, blackish, brunet, coal-black, dark, dark-colored, dark-skinned, darkish, darksome, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, funereal, grave, nigrescent, pitch-black, raven, sable, sad, sober, somber, sombrous, swart, swarthROGET THESAURUS
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Blackness
VB be black, render black, blacken, infuscate, denigrate, blot, blotch, smutch, smirch, darken, black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous, jetty, coal-black, jet-black, fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic, low-toned, low in tone, of the deepest dye, black as jet, black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight, nocturnal, nigrescent, gray, obscure.
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