dusk as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
dusk
noun
1 dusk
The time of day immediately following sunset.
synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight.
Roget 126:
evening,
eve;
decline of day,
fall of day,
close of day;
candlelight,
candlelighting†;
eventide,
nightfall,
curfew,
dusk,
twilight,
eleventh hour;
sunset,
sundown;
going down of the sun,
cock-shut,
dewy eve,
gloaming,
bedtime.
afternoon,
postmeridian,
p. m.
autumn,
fall,
fall of the leaf;
autumnal equinox;
Indian summer,
St. Luke's summer,
St. Martin's summer.
midnight;
dead of night,
witching hour,
witching hour of night,
witching time of night;
winter;
killing time.
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Roget 422:
dimness
etc.
adj.;
darkness
etc.
421;
paleness
etc.
(light color)
429.
half light,
demi-jour;
partial shadow,
partial eclipse;
shadow of a shade;
glimmer,
gliming†;
nebulosity;
cloud
etc.
353;
eclipse.
aurora,
dusk,
twilight,
shades of evening,
crepuscule,
cockshut time†;
break of day,
daybreak,
dawn.
moonlight,
moonbeam,
moonglade†,
moonshine;
starlight,
owl's light,
candlelight,
rushlight,
firelight;
farthing candle.
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Roget 421:
darkness
etc.
adj.,
absence of light;
blackness
etc.
(dark color)
431;
obscurity,
gloom,
murk;
dusk
etc.
(dimness)
422.
Cimmerian darkness†,
Stygian darkness,
Egyptian darkness;
night;
midnight;
dead of night,
witching hour of night,
witching time of night;
blind man's holiday;
darkness visible,
darkness that can be felt;
palpable obscure;
Erebus [Lat.];
the jaws of darkness"
[Midsummer Night's Dream];
sablevested night"
[Milton].
shade,
shadow,
umbra,
penumbra;
sciagraphy†.
obscuration;
occultation,
adumbration,
obumbration†;
obtenebration†,
offuscation†,
caligation†;
extinction;
eclipse,
total eclipse;
gathering of the clouds.
shading;
distribution of shade;
chiaroscuro
etc.
(light)
420.
noctivagation†.
[perfectly black objects]
black body;
hohlraum [Phys.];
black hole;
dark star;
dark matter,
cold dark matter.
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Dutch: avondschemering, schemering
verb
1 dusk
Moby thesaurus: bad light, blackish, broad day, brown of dusk, brownness, caliginous, candlelight, candlelighting, cocklight, crepuscular, crepuscule, dark, dark-colored, darken, darkish, darkishness, darkle, darksome, darksomeness, dawn, day, day glow, daylight, dayshine, daytide, daytime, deadness, dim, dim light, dimmish, dimness, dimpsy, drabness, dullness, duskiness, duskingtide, duskness, dusky, evening, evensong, eventide, flatness, full sun, funereal, gloam, gloaming, gloom, glooming, gloomy, grave, green flash, grow dark, grow dim, half-light, lack of sparkle, lackluster, lifelessness, light of day, lower, lusterlessness, mat, mat finish, midday sun, murk, murkiness, murksome, murky, nightfall, nigrescent, noonlight, noontide light, obscure, owllight, partial darkness, ray of sunshine, sad, semidark, shine, sober, somber, somberness, sombrous, subfusc, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sundown, sunlight, sunset, sunsetty, sunshine, swart, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilighty, unilluminated, vesper, vespertine ... show more.
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