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twilight

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of twilight

1 a time or place of little or no light
  • stumbled around the twilight of the shuttered room, unable to see where she was going
Synonyms of twilight

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

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 twilight

moonlight, starlight, sunlight

effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine

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

blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness
2 the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness
  • The camper watched as twilight descended and the woods fell silent.
Synonyms of twilight

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

dark, darkness, nighttime
Near Antonyms of twilight

day, daytime, light

forenoon
Antonyms of twilight

dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup

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