Examples

7 sentences

  1. They have swarthy skin and black hair.

    ruУ них смуглая кожа и чёрные волосы. — odexed

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  2. I can't understand how she can be so fair when her brother is swarthy.

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  3. The door was opened by an odd, swarthy, dried-up person of uncertain age.

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Meaning

6 senses

  1. Tawny, dusky, dark.

  2. Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny; tan.

  3. A dark grey color.

More meanings 3

  1. (derogatory)Dark-skinned; black.

    naturally having skin of a dark color

  2. (nonstandard)Evil, malicious.

  3. (nonstandard)Weathered, rough.

Origin

Alteration of obsolete swarty, from swart + -y, from Old English sweart (“black”).

Alteration of obsolete swarty, from swart + -y, from Old English sweart (“black”).

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Forms

swarthier, swarthiest
Comparativeswarthier Lesson
Superlativeswarthiest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms
of people, generally:fairA1
paleB1

Word family

2 related words
Relatedswarthiness
Derivedswarthily

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
swapC1swarmB1swashbucklingswastikaswat

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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