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

Examples of dark-skinned in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

His mother was a dark-skinned granddaughter of Saint Ann’s enslaved whose peasant kin farmed dasheen and yams. — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2026

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster has kicked off debates about geopolitics, a dark-skinned woman as Helen of Troy and a trans actor playing a Greek warrior. — John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026

But Aina’s true legacy is in her mission to make the beauty world more inclusive, particularly for dark-skinned Black women, who have historically been overlooked in the beauty sphere. — Kara Nesvig, Time, 14 July 2026

One appeared to be a dark-skinned male about 14 years old wearing a black Nike sheisty—a slang term for a full-face covering—a black shirt, unknown color shorts, and high white socks; this suspect displayed a black firearm in his waistband. — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 11 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for dark-skinned

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