Synonyms for dusk
dʌskdusk

Wiktionary(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. dusknoun

   Synonyms:
   sundown, sunset, vespers, smokefall, evenfall

   Antonyms:
   dawn

2. dusknoun

   to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk

   Synonyms:
   vespers, smokefall, evenfall, sundown, sunset

   Antonyms:
   dawn

English Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. dusk

   Synonyms:
   blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

   Antonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

Princeton's WordNet(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscleverb

   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, tumble, crepuscule, twilight, free fall, spill, nightfall, downfall

2. duskverb

   become dusk

Matched Categories

1. • Darken

Dictionary of English Synonymes(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. dusknoun

   Synonyms:
   twilight

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. dusknoun

   Synonyms:
   twilight, evening, nightfall

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these paraphrases:

1. List of paraphrases for "dusk":

   twilight, nightfall, sunset, sundown, evening, dark

How to pronounce dusk?

How to say dusk in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use dusk in a sentence?

1. Soledad Ursua:

   You make sure to get home by dusk, there's fights multiple times a day on the Ocean Front Walk... stabbings, shootings are happening weekly. It's just a very dangerous time to be a Venice resident right now.

2. Tonya Winders:

   Pollen count is highest between 5 a.m. and 10 a.m., and again at dusk, so plan your workouts for other times of the day when pollen levels are lower.

3. William Ja:

   Maybe it's so that they can continue foraging and accumulating nutrients before sleep, or maybe that's a peak time for birds and frogs and other insect eaters to come out, so sleeping at dusk would be especially vulnerable for the flies.

4. Henry Anatole Grunwald:

   Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

5. Chris Fischer:

   Don't go play with the seals in the water at dawn or dusk. Other than that, enjoy life, go swimming. Because if you're worried about a shark interaction, you should be scared to death to get in the car.

Images & Illustrations of dusk