Synonyms for sunset
ˈsʌnˌsɛtsun·set

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1. sunsetnoun

   Antonyms:
   sunrise

2. sunsetnoun

   To phase out.

   We'll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.

   Synonyms:
   twilight, sundown, nightfall, dusk

   Antonyms:
   sunrise

3. sunsetnoun

   Antonyms:
   sunrise

4. sunsetnoun

   Antonyms:
   sunrise

5. sunsetnoun

   one's sunset years

   Antonyms:
   sunrise

6. sunsetnoun

   The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.

   Antonyms:
   sunrise

7. sunsetnoun

   Synonyms:
   end, twilight, final act, last, swansong, terminal

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1. sunset, sundownnoun

   the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon

   Synonyms:
   sundown

   Antonyms:
   dawn, daybreak, dayspring, sunup, break of day, aurora, sunrise, dawning, cockcrow, break of the day, first light, morning, first, new

2. sunsetnoun

   atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun

   Synonyms:
   sundown

   Antonyms:
   first light, break of the day, morning, cockcrow, dawning, sunrise, aurora, daybreak, dawn, dayspring, break of day, sunup, new, first

3. sunsetadjective

   the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon

   Synonyms:
   sundown

   Antonyms:
   dawning, dayspring, dawn, sunup, cockcrow, break of the day, daybreak, first light, aurora, sunrise, morning, break of day, first, new

4. sunsetadjective

   of a declining industry or technology

   "sunset industries"

   Synonyms:
   sunset(a)

   Antonyms:
   dawning, break of day, cockcrow, dayspring, sunup, dawn, daybreak, aurora, break of the day, first light, sunrise, morning, new, first

5. sunset(a)adjective

   providing for termination

   "a program with a sunset provision"

   Antonyms:
   sunrise, daybreak, morning, sunup, dawning, first light, dayspring, cockcrow, dawn, aurora, break of the day, break of day, new, first

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1. • Atmospheric Phenomenon

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1. sunsetnoun

   Synonyms:
   evening, sundown, close of the day

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1. List of paraphrases for "sunset":

   sundown, dusk, twilight, sunsetting, nightfall, extinction, sun, sunrise, bedtime, extinguishment, expiry, hanger

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1. Nancy Pelosi:

   Americans know that these dinosaurs should be lumbering off into the sunset – at least Trump was only in Washington for 4 years.

2. Crowfoot:

   What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

3. Horace Rumpole:

   There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

4. Jim Hanson:

   I think the problem is we have become overly sensitive to Islamic sensibilities, ramadan is a time when most Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. Well, if we wanted to be courteous, we could've just held the celebration at night. You know what else is great after sunset, fireworks?

5. Christopher Polk/Getty Images:

   I stopped halfway up the driveway, kind of in the woods over Sunset Boulevard and I peed in a Snapple bottle in my car and then I sealed the bottle and left it there and went on to have a very absurd meeting with Tom Cruise.