daylight

1 the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance daylight was just breaking when we stumbled out of bed Synonyms aurora, cockcrow, dawning, day, daybreak, dawn, light, morn, morning, sun, sunrise, sunupRelated Words daytime; forenoonNear Antonyms dark, darkness, midnight, night, nighttime; afternoon, midday; dusk, evening, eventide, gloaming, twilightAntonyms nightfall, sundown, sunset

2 the hours of light between one night and the next there isn't a lot of daylight left, so we'd better get home soon Synonyms day, daytimeRelated Words light, sunlight, sunshine; dawn, dawning, daybreak, forenoon, morn, morning, sunrise; afternoon, noon; dusk, eve, evening, gloaming, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilightNear Antonyms black, blackness, dark, darknessAntonyms night, nighttime

3 daylights pl  the normal or healthy condition of the mental abilities nearly terrified the daylights out of him with that scream Synonyms daylights, head, marbles, reason, saneness, sanity, wit(s)Related Words rationality, reasonableness, sense; health, healthfulness, healthiness, wholesomeness; clearheadedness, lucidity, lucidness, normalcy, normality, soundness; wisdomNear Antonyms delusion, hallucination; delirium, frenzy, hysteriaAntonyms dementia, derangement, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, unreason