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dark-skinned

dark-skinned adjective: having a relatively dark skin.

Adjective

dark-skinned (comparative darker-skinned, superlative darkest-skinned)

  1. Having a relatively dark skin.
    • "They are only fit for muck, they are; and they smell bad enough for it already." Job, it will be perceived, was no admirer of the manners and customs of our dark-skinned brothers.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
    Antonyms:
    light-skinned
  2. Of a black person, having relatively dark-colored skin.

dark-skinned meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Punjabi

dark-skinned in Hindi

having dark skin
हब्शी habśī, हबशी habśī, हबसी habsī, काला kālā, सियाह siyāh, कृष्ण kŕṣṇa

dark-skinned in Urdu

dark-skinned, Negro
زنگی zaṅgī

dark-skinned in Bengali

dark-skinned
কৃষ্ণাঙ্গ kriśnaṅgo

dark-skinned in Punjabi

dark-skinned
ਕਾਲ਼ਾ kāḷā
More languagesFewer languages
dark-skinned in Tagalog
swarang iyong
dark-skinned in Arabic
أَسْمَر ʔasmar
dark-skinned in Malay
gelap
dark-skinned in Persian
سیاهچرده siyâh-čorde, اسمر asmar

Synonyms of dark-skinned

Antonyms

Forms of dark-skinned

comparativedarker-skinned
superlativedarkest-skinned
alternative formdarkskinned

Questions about dark-skinned

What does dark-skinned mean?
Dark-skinned means having a relatively dark skin.
What is dark-skinned in Hindi?
Dark-skinned in Hindi is हब्शी (habśī), हबशी (habśī), हबसी (habsī). See Dark-skinned meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dark-skinned?
Dark-skinned is an adjective.

Words near dark-skinned in the dictionary

  1. dark-lanthorn
  2. dark-lanthorns
  3. dark-necked tailorbird
  4. dark-side
  5. dark-sides
  6. dark-skinned
  7. dark-zilla
  8. dark-zillas
  9. Darkala
  10. Darkar
  11. darkcore

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dark-skinned (page history and authors); زنگی (Urdu) (page history and authors); কৃষ্ণাঙ্গ (Bengali) (page history and authors); ਕਾਲ਼ਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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