What are some opposite words for nocturnal?

Antonyms for nocturnal
nɒkˈtɜr nlnoc·tur·nal

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Wiktionary3.8 / 4 votes

  1. nocturnaladjective

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

  2. nocturnaladjective

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

  3. nocturnaladjective

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.8 / 9 votes

  1. nocturnal

    Antonyms:
    daily, diurnal

    Synonyms:
    nightly

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.5 / 2 votes

  1. nocturnal

    Antonyms:
    diurnal, light, brilliant, solar

    Synonyms:
    nightly, dark, gloomy, tenebrose

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Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. nocturnaladjective

    belonging to or active during the night

    "nocturnal animals are active at night"; "nocturnal plants have flowers that open at night and close by day"

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

  2. nocturnaladjective

    of or relating to or occurring in the night

    "nocturnal darkness"

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

Editors Contribution3.0 / 1 vote

  1. day

    oppersite of night

    Submitted by anonymous on May 10, 2020  
  2. matutinal

    pertaining to night

    she delivered a nocturnal prayer

    Submitted by rinat on December 15, 2015  

How to use nocturnal in a sentence?

  1. Gilbert Keith Chesterton:

    All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

  2. Ashima:

    The smell, the nocturnal stillness, the dance of droplets and the moonlight on the road. The perfect sense.

  3. Genette Hemley:

    Tigers are notoriously difficult animals to study, they’re nocturnal, they’re secretive, they live in dense forests. And so it is not an exact science, but it is getting better all the time.

  4. Valentina Mella:

    Koalas are nocturnal animals, so they are only active at night, and they are arboreal, which means that they live in trees and rely on them for food, shelter and, as we just discovered, also for drinking, koalas actually spend 98% of their lives in trees and the only time they are on the ground is when they are trying to find another tree with a more generous food supply or a mate.

  5. Mathias Basner:

    Passive strategies, like new windows or insulation, can be very effective for nocturnal noise exposure, but should really be our last resort, noise that is not produced cannot have effects.

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#613light
#756daily
#3633solar
#6035brilliant
#25594nocturnal
#41336diurnal

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