What are some opposite words for twilight?
Antonyms for twilight
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪttwi·light
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term twilight.
Wiktionary
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, 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?
Eastern Ukraine residents were living in a twilight zone -- Eastern Ukraine residents were in the front line of a geopolitical despite, and there was a sense of powerlessness.
In the twilight of the Bush administration, we don't need an acting US attorney in Maryland.
I feel like I am living in the Twilight Zone. How do people think this is okay?
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.
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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