Synonyms of dusk

dusk 1 of 3

adjective

ˈdəsk 

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

3 of 3

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

Examples of dusk in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Waiting to hear After dusk Wednesday, buses began to arrive at the plant to return some of the immigrants after processing. —Author: Jenny Jarvie, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Aug. 2019

On July 4, Elitch Gardens will offer a dusk fireworks display visible from the surrounding areas, and The Denver Outlaws game at Mile High Stadium (against the Boston Cannons) on July 4 will also be followed by fireworks. —John Wenzel, The Know, 24 June 2019

Noun

Make a pilgrimage at dusk to Bean Point at the north tip of the island to watch the sun drop into the Gulf. —Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024

At dusk on November 26, an Aussie soldier invited an American serviceman to join him for a beer at a canteen near the PX. —Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024