Synonyms for twilight
ˈtwaɪˌlaɪttwi·light

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1. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   end, nightfall, sundown, gloaming, eventide, evening, dusk

2. twilightnoun

   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.

   O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —Alexander Pope.

   Synonyms:
   dusk, nightfall, sundown, end, eventide, evening, gloaming

3. twilightnoun

   The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.

   It was twilight by the time I got back home.

   Synonyms:
   nightfall, sundown, end, dusk, evening, eventide, gloaming

4. twilightnoun

   Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.

   The twilight of probability. —John Locke.

   Synonyms:
   gloaming, dusk, end, eventide, nightfall, sundown, evening

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1. twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepusclenoun

   the time of day immediately following sunset

   "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

   Synonyms:
   gloam, crepuscle, declension, declination, pin, fall, surrender, gloaming, evenfall, descent, capitulation, decline, declivity, downslope, drop, autumn, dip, dusk, tumble, crepuscule, free fall, spill, nightfall, downfall

   Antonyms:
   light

2. twilightnoun

   the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

   Synonyms:
   fall, crepuscle, gloaming, dusk, nightfall, evenfall, gloam, crepuscule

   Antonyms:
   light

3. twilightadjective

   a condition of decline following successes

   "in the twilight of the empire"

   Synonyms:
   fall, crepuscle, gloaming, dusk, nightfall, evenfall, gloam, crepuscule

   Antonyms:
   light

4. dusky, twilight(a), twilitadjective

   lighted by or as if by twilight

   "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

   Antonyms:
   light

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   crepuscular light

2. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   dim light, faint light

3. twilightadjective

   Synonyms:
   obscure, dim, shaded

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. twilightnoun

   Synonyms:
   dusk, evening

   Associated words:
   crepuscular, crepusculous

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "twilight":

   dusk, sunset, nightfall, sundown, shuguang

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1. Chris Wiseheart:

   We worked so hard for everything and just to have it pulled out from underneath you through no fault of your own... [ My wife and I ] had plans to travel and do something in our twilight years, but we've gone through all our savings and are pretty heavily in debt, it'll be hard for us to get out of this mess, but I think we will.

2. Brett Kavanaugh:

   No, and we're dealing with an anonymous letter about an anonymous person and an anonymous friend, it's ridiculous. Total Twilight Zone. And no, I've never done anything like that.

3. Samir Puri:

   Eastern Ukraine residents were living in a twilight zone -- Eastern Ukraine residents were in the front line of a geopolitical despite, and there was a sense of powerlessness.

4. Myo Myint Maung:

   The censor board found 'Twilight Over Burma' can cause disunity among national races so they decided by vote that this film shouldn't be allowed for public showing.

5. Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena:

   Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.