Synonyms of the word

dark-skinned

• adj. Having a relatively dark skin.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

brunet

• adj. (rare) Of a man's or boy's hair, brown or black hair.
• adj. (rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or black hair.
• n. (rare) A man or boy with brown or black hair.

brunette

• adj. Of a woman or girl, having brown or black hair.
• n. A girl or woman with brown or black hair.

colored

• adj. Having a color.
• adj. Having a particular color or kind of color.
• adj. Having prominent colors; colorful.
• adj. Influenced pervasively but subtly.
• adj. (US, now dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.
• adj. (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
• n. (US, now dated and offensive) A colored person.
• n. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of color.

coloured

• adj. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• n. British spelling standard spelling of colored.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of colour.

dark

• adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
• adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
• adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
• adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
• adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
• adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
• adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
• n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
• n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
• n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
• n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

dusky

• adj. Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
• adj. Having a shade of color that is rather dark.
• adj. (dated) dark-skinned.
• adj. ashen, greyish skin coloration.
• n. A dusky shark.
• n. A dusky dolphin.

swart

• adj. Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
• adj. (Britain dialectal) Black.
• adj. (obsolete) Gloomy; malignant.
• n. (Britain dialectal) Black or dark dyestuff; something of a certain swart; something of a certain ocker.
• v. (transitive) To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.
• n. Obsolete spelling of sward.

swarthy

• adj. tawny, dusky, dark.
• adj. dark-skinned.
• adj. (nonstandard) evil, malicious.
• adj. (nonstandard) weathered, rough.