twilight | Definition of twilight

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

blackout, brownout, dimout

shadiness, umbrage

dullness (also dulness), somberness

cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness

dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness

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

watched as twilight descended and the woods fell silent

Synonyms of twilight

crepuscule (or crepuscle), dusk, eve, evenfall, evening, eventide, gloaming, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset

Words Related to twilight

dark, darkness, nighttime

Near Antonyms of twilight

day, daytime, light

Antonyms of twilight

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