Antonyms for TWILIGHT
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪttwi·light

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

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

Matched Categories

1. • Hour
   • Light

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

   Antonyms:
   light

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

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

   Antonyms:
   light

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

3. twilightadjective

   a condition of decline following successes

   "in the twilight of the empire"

   Antonyms:
   light

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

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

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

1. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   dusk, evening

   Associated words:
   crepuscular, crepusculous

How to use TWILIGHT in a sentence?

1. Theodore Roosevelt:

   Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

2. Hubert Humphrey:

   It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

3. Susan Collins:

   This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone, i dont know who this is, and this never happened.

4. Ingrid Bergman:

   No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

5. Antony Navarro:

   It was almost like the' Twilight Zone,' you went into the gate and it was like a different world.

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