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dusk

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of dusk

being without light or without much light
  • Under a dusk sky, the campers wearily bedded down for the night.
Synonyms of dusk

black, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), unlit
Words Related to dusk

crepuscular, twilit

moonless, starless, sunless

cloudy, dull, dulled, lackluster

shadowlike, shadowy, shady

gray (also grey), leaden, pale

beclouded, befogged, clouded, foggy, misty, smoggy, soupy
Near Antonyms of dusk

ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling

ultrabright

glossy, lustrous, shiny

floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit)

moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit
Antonyms of dusk

bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous

dusk

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of dusk

1 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 of dusk

eve, evening, eventide, gloaming, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight
Words Related to dusk

dark, darkness, nighttime
Near Antonyms of dusk

day, daytime, light

forenoon
Antonyms of dusk

dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup
2 a time or place of little or no light
  • legends of fearsome beasts living in the dusk of the great forest
Synonyms of dusk

black, blackness, candlelight, dark, darkness, gloaming, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, umbra
Words Related to dusk

midnight

blackout, brownout, dimout

shadiness, umbrage

dullness (also dulness), somberness

cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness

dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness

half-light
Near Antonyms of dusk

moonlight, starlight, sunlight

effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine

incandescence, luminance, luminescence, luminosity, luminousness
Antonyms of dusk

blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness
3 partial darkness due to the obstruction of light rays
  • the forbidding dusk of Germany's famed Black Forest
Synonyms of dusk

penumbra, shade, shadiness, shadow, umbra
Words Related to dusk

blackness, dimness, duskiness, gloom, gloominess, murkiness, obscurity, semidarkness, somberness

cloudiness
Near Antonyms of dusk

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

dusk

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of dusk

to grow dark
  • a dusking room
Synonyms of dusk

black out, blacken, close in, darken
Words Related to dusk

dim, fade, wane

gloom, lower (also lour)
Near Antonyms of dusk

dawn

beam, glow, radiate, shine
Antonyms of dusk

brighten, light, lighten

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