All dusk synonyms
dusk
D d noun dusk
- nightfall — the coming of night; the end of daylight; dusk.
- twilight — the soft, diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon, either from daybreak to sunrise or, more commonly, from sunset to nightfall.
- sunset — the setting or descent of the sun below the horizon in the evening.
- sundown — sunset, especially the time of sunset.
- dark — When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
- gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- gloaming — twilight; dusk.
- night — the period of darkness between sunset and sunrise.
adjective dusk
- nubilous — cloudy or foggy.
- lightless — without light or lights; receiving no light; dark.
- unlit — not illuminated
- pitch-dark — dark or black as pitch: a pitch-dark night.
- murky — dark, gloomy, and cheerless.
- rayless — lacking rays or raylike parts.
- mater — British Informal. mother1 .
- dun — to make repeated and insistent demands upon, especially for the payment of a debt.
- aphotic — characterized by or growing in the absence of light
- stygian — of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
- crepuscular — Crepuscular means relating to twilight.
- atramentous — similar to or as black as ink
- fuliginous — sooty; smoky: the fuliginous air hanging over an industrial city.
- illuminate — to make lucid or clear; throw light on (a subject).
- cimmerian — very dark; gloomy
- obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
- tenebrous — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- amphibological — (rare) of doubtful meaning, ambiguous, quibbling.
- dim — DIM statement