Synonyms of dusk

dusk 1 of 3

adjective

as in darkened

being without light or without much light

under a dusk sky, the campers wearily bedded down for the night

Synonyms & Similar Words

• darkened
• dark
• murky
• black
• dusky
• sombre
• dim
• dimmed
• unlit
• darkling
• somber
• lightless
• pitch-dark
• obscured
• pitch-black
• gloomy
• darkish
• obscure
• stygian
• darksome
• tenebrous
• moonless
• crepuscular
• twilit
• pitchy
• rayless
• caliginous
• grey
• misty
• tenebrific
• gray
• starless
• cloudy
• shadowy
• dulled
• pale
• clouded
• foggy
• shady
• lackluster
• sunless
• dull
• leaden
• smoggy
• shadowlike
• fuliginous
• soupy
• befogged
• beclouded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• light
• lighted
• illuminated
• luminous
• bright
• lit
• shining
• brilliant
• lucid
• incandescent
• lucent
• sparkling
• radiant
• illumined
• lambent
• lightsome
• brightened
• resplendent
• alight
• glaring
• glowing
• effulgent
• beaming
• beamy
• shiny
• glossy
• lustrous
• aglitter
• moonlit
• sunlit
• agleam
• relucent
• spotlit
• ultrabright
• starlit
• ablaze
• moony
• highlighted
• floodlit
• spotlighted
• floodlighted

dusk

2 of 3

noun

1

as in sunset

the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness

we stopped playing at dusk, since it was getting too dark to see the ball

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sunset
• night
• evening
• twilight
• nightfall
• sundown
• eventide
• eve
• gloaming
• dark
• crepuscule
• darkness
• crepuscle
• nighttime
• evenfall

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dawn
• sunrise
• morning
• daybreak
• daylight
• morn
• dawning
• aurora
• day
• light
• sunup
• daytime
• cockcrow
• forenoon

2

as in night

a time or place of little or no light

legends of fearsome beasts living in the dusk of the great forest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• night
• dark
• shadows
• darkness
• blackness
• twilight
• black
• midnight
• gloom
• candlelight
• gloaming
• semidarkness
• shade
• murk
• umbra
• blackout
• dulness
• dullness
• dimness
• half-light
• cloudiness
• somberness
• grayness
• haziness
• faintness
• brownout
• umbrage
• murkiness
• paleness
• mistiness
• gloominess
• dimout
• shadiness
• fogginess

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• day
• daylight
• light
• glow
• brightness
• glare
• moonlight
• sunlight
• blaze
• brilliance
• lightness
• starlight
• sunshine
• radiance
• luminescence
• shine
• luminosity
• luminance
• effulgence
• radiancy
• incandescence
• luminousness

3

as in shade

partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays

the forbidding dusk of Germany's famed Black Forest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shade
• shadow
• blackness
• gloom
• penumbra
• umbra
• dimness
• semidarkness
• shadiness
• duskiness
• murkiness
• somberness
• gloominess
• obscurity
• cloudiness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• light
• brightness
• illumination
• radiance
• luminosity
• incandescence
• brilliance
• luminance
• lucidity
• lightness
• effulgence
• radiancy
• luminousness
• lucidness

dusk

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verb

as in to darken

to grow dark

the grief-stricken woman continued to sit in the dusking room until she was completely enveloped in darkness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• darken
• fade
• dim
• close in
• blacken
• black out
• gloom
• wane
• lour
• lower

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• light
• lighten
• glow
• beam
• brighten
• dawn
• shine
• radiate