twilight

Plural: twilights

Noun

• The soft, diffused light before sunrise or after sunset.
• the time of day immediately following sunset
  • "he loved the twilight"
• the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
• a condition of decline following successes
  • "in the twilight of the empire"
• 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.
• The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
• Any faint light through which something is seen.
• The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
• An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.

Adjective Satellite

• lighted by or as if by twilight; -Henry Fielding
  • "the twilight glow of the sky"

Adj

• Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.
• Synonym of mesopelagic (“Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.”)

Verb

• To illuminate faintly.

Examples

• As TWILIGHT set in, the Scrabble game grew more intense, illuminated by the lamp.
• I could just make out her face in the twilight.
• It was twilight by the time I got back home.
• The twilight of one's life
• twilight zone

Synonyms

crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, dusky, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilit, blue hour, crepusculum, dimmet, evenglome, glooming, mesopelagic, tweenlight, twilight

Related Words

crepuscular, daytime, golden hour, nighttime

Anagrams of twilight