Synonyms for TWILIGHT
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪttwi·light

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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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms: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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   light

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

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

   Antonyms:
   light

3. twilightadjective

   a condition of decline following successes

   "in the twilight of the empire"

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

   Antonyms:
   light

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

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   crepuscular light

2. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   dim light, faint light

3. twilightadjective

   Synonyms:
   obscure, dim, shaded

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

1. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   dusk, evening

   Associated words:
   crepuscular, crepusculous

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "twilight":

   dusk, sunset, nightfall, sundown, shuguang

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How to use TWILIGHT in a sentence?

1. The WHOI:

   The unique challenge about working in the twilight zone is that we don't want to disturb the animals.

2. Read MoreIn 2008:

   In' Twilight,' I was Read MoreIn 2008 -- I was 16 -- and so my parents were a huge part of( grounding me) and even when I was filming movies, when I was home, I still had to take out the trash. I still had to mow the lawn.

3. Henry Ward Beecher:

   Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

4. 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.

5. Rod Serling:

   The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.