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swarthy is an adjective meaning "naturally having skin of a dark color". It carries one recorded sense.
naturally having skin of a dark color
“a dark-skinned beauty”
“gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks”
“a smile on his swarthy face”
“`swart' is archaic”
archaism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for swarthy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.