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Antonyms for Twilight
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪttwi·light
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term Twilight.
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twilightnoun
Synonyms:
end, nightfall, sundown, gloaming, eventide, evening, dusktwilightnoun
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.
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dusk, nightfall, sundown, end, eventide, evening, gloamingtwilightnoun
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, gloamingtwilightnoun
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
Princeton's WordNet
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:
lightSynonyms:
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, downfalltwilightnoun
the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
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lightSynonyms:
fall, crepuscle, gloaming, dusk, nightfall, evenfall, gloam, crepusculetwilightadjective
a condition of decline following successes
"in the twilight of the empire"
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lightSynonyms:
fall, crepuscle, gloaming, dusk, nightfall, evenfall, gloam, crepusculedusky, 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 Words
twilightnoun
Associated words:
crepuscular, crepusculous
How to use Twilight in a sentence?
Could it be that nothing can truly make people long for 'anything' or 'anybody' anymore? Is everybody invading the catwalk of superficiality and acquiring artificial gadgets to create a pretense of desire? Have they, really, ended up in a twilight of desire? ( "Crépuscule du désir" )
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
The censor board found 'Twilight Over Burma' can cause disunity among national races so they decided by vote that this film shouldn't be allowed for public showing.
It was almost like the' Twilight Zone,' you went into the gate and it was like a different world.
Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena:
Far better 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 much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
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