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Antonyms for twilight
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪttwi·light

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Wiktionary3.5 / 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

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 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, 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 Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. twilightnoun

    Synonyms:
    dusk, evening

    Associated words:
    crepuscular, crepusculous

How to use twilight in a sentence?

  1. Samir Puri:

    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.

  2. Barbara Mikulski:

    In the twilight of the Bush administration, we don't need an acting US attorney in Maryland.

  3. Carolyn Fortney:

    I feel like I am living in the Twilight Zone. How do people think this is okay?

  4. 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.

  5. H. G. Wells:

    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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