swarthy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: swarth=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

swarthy, a. [See Swart, a.].

 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, swarth

ROGET THESAURUS

swarthy

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.