half-light

noun

ˈhaf-ˌlīt 

ˈhäf-

: dim grayish light

Examples of half-light in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Right now, in high summer, find me on a stool in the nook’s half-light sipping a cocktail simply called Peach. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Each morning at the crack of dawn, in one of the great Instagram moments of our time, 165 enormous balloons begin to swell in Cappadocia's half-light, their burners briefly illuminating the valley floor. — Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Sep. 2026

The leaf canopy was so dense that at times only a half-light, a sort of dusky murk, penetrated to the forest floor where the hounds ran. — Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026

Start with a stripe down the middle, then mow in a figure eight to get that half-dark, half-light tuxedo look, or, my preferred method, loop around like a Zamboni until you're done. — CBS News, 1 May 2026

Antarctica in mid-winter is bathed in a dusky half-light or shrouded in darkness, with the sun's orbit ensuring the warming rays no longer reach the icy landmass. — Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 June 2025

The play has a beautiful opening, in which a singer played by Georgia Heers appears in a hazy cone of half-light behind a golden curtain. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025

The world these characters inhabit, within an enclave of Flushing, Queens, is a place of in-between, captured in the evocative half-light of Norm Li’s cinematography, suggesting the cool-hot glow of the title’s blue sun. — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024

The courtyard of the Four Seasons Washington DC is hot in the late July half-light. — Nick Remsen, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1567, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for half-light

• affright
• airtight
• albite
• alight
• alright
• aplite
• aright
• bainite
• birthright
• bobwhite
• bornite
• bullfight