dark-skinned

adjective

ˈdärk-ˈskind 

: having a brown skin tone : having dark pigmentation of the skin

Uncle Shelton was a thin, dark-skinned black man with a sharp conk and a soft-spoken voice.

—Drew T. Brown III

The dark-skinned Aboriginals, thought to have migrated from mainland Southeast Asia 40,000 years ago, numbered 300,000 when the first British settlers arrived.

—Seymour Topping

Word History

First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dark-skinned

• underpinned
• chagrined
• crosswind
• downwind
• rescind
• upwind
• whirlwind
• woodwind
• finned
• ginned
• grinned
• pinned