Synonyms for twilight
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪttwi·light

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1. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   end, nightfall, sundown, gloaming, eventide, evening, dusk

2. twilightnoun

   The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

   O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —Alexander Pope.

   Synonyms:
   dusk, nightfall, sundown, end, eventide, evening, gloaming

3. twilightnoun

   The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.

   It was twilight by the time I got back home.

   Synonyms:
   nightfall, sundown, end, dusk, evening, eventide, gloaming

4. twilightnoun

   Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.

   The twilight of probability. —John Locke.

   Synonyms:
   gloaming, dusk, end, eventide, nightfall, sundown, evening

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1. twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepusclenoun

   the time of day immediately following sunset

   "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

   Synonyms:
   gloam, crepuscle, declension, declination, pin, fall, surrender, gloaming, evenfall, descent, capitulation, decline, declivity, downslope, drop, autumn, dip, dusk, tumble, crepuscule, free fall, spill, nightfall, downfall

   Antonyms:
   light

2. twilightnoun

   the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

   Synonyms:
   fall, crepuscle, gloaming, dusk, nightfall, evenfall, gloam, crepuscule

   Antonyms:
   light

3. twilightadjective

   a condition of decline following successes

   "in the twilight of the empire"

   Synonyms:
   fall, crepuscle, gloaming, dusk, nightfall, evenfall, gloam, crepuscule

   Antonyms:
   light

4. dusky, twilight(a), twilitadjective

   lighted by or as if by twilight

   "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

   Antonyms:
   light

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   crepuscular light

2. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   dim light, faint light

3. twilightadjective

   Synonyms:
   obscure, dim, shaded

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   dusk, evening

   Associated words:
   crepuscular, crepusculous

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "twilight":

   dusk, sunset, nightfall, sundown, shuguang

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1. Rod Serling:

   The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

2. Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad:

   Frank oh, say can you see, buy the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. who's bright strips and broad stars, in the parelious night, o'er the rampart's we watched, as the da da, da, da, da, da, and the rocket's red glare, lots of bombs in the air, gave proof to the night, that we still had a flag, oh say does that spangle banner wave, over all-l-l-l-l that's free, over the home, of the land, and the land of the free

3. Chris Wiseheart:

   We worked so hard for everything and just to have it pulled out from underneath you through no fault of your own... [ My wife and I ] had plans to travel and do something in our twilight years, but we've gone through all our savings and are pretty heavily in debt, it'll be hard for us to get out of this mess, but I think we will.

4. Elizabeth Bowen:

   It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

5. Evil Rarity:

   Rarity: Or, should I say that I’ve ever imagined! Spike: Oh yeah we should definitely go by- (loud gasp) Twilight Sparkle: Spike! Never ever ever take another book at the castle with out asking! Spike: What? Just being honest, it’s what good friends do. (Twilight growls)