Afterglow

Quick meaning: Afterglow is a noun meaning The glow seen in the sky after sunset.

Meaning

The glow seen in the sky after sunset.

More Meanings

1. The light emitted by an incandescent object while cooling.
2. The light emitted by a phosphor after excitation.
3. The mildly euphoric feeling experienced after a pleasurable experience, especially after an orgasm or drug-induced high.
4. An afterparty.

Example Sentences

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.

She herself had grown old as people should grow old—steadily and firmly. No interruptions, no belated after-glows and spasmodic returns.

The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards.

Word Forms

• afterglows
• after-glow

Synonyms for afterglow

Depending on context, synonyms include afterparty, afterlight.

Antonyms for afterglow

Common opposites include foreglow, hangover.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include afterlight, aspenglow, sunset, alpenglow, skyglow, sundown.

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