English Dictionary

swarthy

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈswɔɹði/

形容詞

非標準

Tawny, dusky, dark. / Dark-skinned; Black. / Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny; tan. / (nonstandard) Evil, malicious. / (nonstandard) Weathered, rough.

日本語の意味

たぬ色、くすんだ、暗い色 / 暗い肌色、黒っぽい / 白人よりは暗く、たぬ色より明るい（肌の色） / （非標準）邪悪な、悪意のある / （非標準）風化した、荒れた

The swarthy sailor told stories of distant ports under the stars.

色黒の船乗りは星空の下で遠い港の物語を語った。

意味（1）

Tawny, dusky, dark.

意味（2）

Dark-skinned; Black.

Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.

意味（3）

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

the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People

意味（4）

(nonstandard) Evil, malicious.

意味（5）

(nonstandard) Weathered, rough.

Mason: Okay, how do I look, really? Betty: …'Swarthy.' Mason: Well, is that good? Betty: Depends if you like 'swarthy.' Mason: Do you like 'swarthy'? Betty: Not particularly.

swarthier （ comparative ）

swarthiest （ superlative ）