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

Examples of dark-skinned in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Born to Puerto Rican and Cuban parents during the Great Depression and raised in New York City’s Spanish Harlem, Thomas’ identity as a dark-skinned individual was contested by his family members, who refused to acknowledge his African blood. —Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2025

In the post on X, Fuentes mocks a post praising a photo of an apparently white couple pictured with two light-skinned children and a dark-skinned baby. —Alexandra Alper and Raphael Satter, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2025

Historically, companies haven’t been required to include a significant number of dark-skinned people in studies of pulse oximeters. —Erika Edwards, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025

All the money her father had left them was put toward his daughters’ private education, but she was ostracized by wealthy classmates who bullied her for being too poor, too gawky and too dark-skinned. —Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1750, in the meaning defined above