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Synonyms for nocturnal
nɒkˈtɜr nlnoc·tur·nal

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Wiktionary3.8 / 4 votes

  1. nocturnaladjective

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

  2. nocturnaladjective

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

  3. nocturnaladjective

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.8 / 9 votes

  1. nocturnal

    Synonyms:
    nightly

    Antonyms:
    daily, diurnal

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.5 / 2 votes

  1. nocturnal

    Synonyms:
    nightly, dark, gloomy, tenebrose

    Antonyms:
    diurnal, light, brilliant, solar

Princeton's WordNet5.0 / 1 vote

  1. nocturnaladjective

    belonging to or active during the night

    "nocturnal animals are active at night"; "nocturnal plants have flowers that open at night and close by day"

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

  2. nocturnaladjective

    of or relating to or occurring in the night

    "nocturnal darkness"

    Antonyms:
    diurnal

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Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. nocturnaladjective

    Synonyms:
    nightly

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "nocturnal":

    nighttime, nocturne, night-time, night, nightly, late-night, hypsiglena

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How to use nocturnal in a sentence?

  1. Gilbert Keith Chesterton:

    All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

  2. Ashima:

    The smell, the nocturnal stillness, the dance of droplets and the moonlight on the road. The perfect sense.

  3. Daniel Smith:

    The circadian system changes throughout life. If Kristen Knutson've got kids, Kristen Knutson know that very young kids tend to be nocturnal, my suspicion is that we might observe even more pronounced effects in younger samples, but that hasn't been done yet, to my knowledge.

  4. Genette Hemley:

    Tigers are notoriously difficult animals to study, they’re nocturnal, they’re secretive, they live in dense forests. And so it is not an exact science, but it is getting better all the time.

  5. Mathias Basner:

    Passive strategies, like new windows or insulation, can be very effective for nocturnal noise exposure, but should really be our last resort, noise that is not produced cannot have effects.


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