Thesaurus:dusk

Thesaurus

dusk

English

Noun

Sense: the part of the day when the sun is below the horizon but before the full onset of night

Synonyms

• cockshut (obsolete)
• crepusculum
• dark    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dimmity
• duckish (Canada)
• dusk
• evenfall
• mirkning (Scotland)
• night
• nightfall
• sun (chiefly literary)
• sundown (US)
• sunset
• vespers (historical, Christianity)

Antonyms

• dawn    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• twilight    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• day    [⇒ thesaurus]
• evening    [⇒ thesaurus]

Comeronyms

• early morning    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dawn    [⇒ thesaurus]
• first light
• postdawn
• morning    [⇒ thesaurus]
• midday    [⇒ thesaurus]
• afternoon    [⇒ thesaurus]
• evening    [⇒ thesaurus]
• night
• midnight    [⇒ thesaurus]

Further reading

• “126. evening” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “dusk” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.