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. Ingrid Bergman:

   No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

2. Brett Kavanaugh:

   No, and we're dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend, it's ridiculous. Total Twilight Zone. And no, I've never done anything like that.

3. Erik Pevernagie:

   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" )

4. The WHOI:

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

5. Hubert H. Humphrey:

   It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.