Dusk

Quick meaning: Dusk is an adjective meaning Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

Meaning

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.

More Meanings

1. The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
2. A darkish colour.
3. The condition of being dusky; duskiness
4. (intransitive) To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
5. (transitive) To make dusk.

Example Sentences

We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.

A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.

Word Forms

• dusker
• duskest
• dusks
• dusking
• dusked

Synonyms for dusk

Depending on context, synonyms include evenfall, nightfall, smokefall, vespers, cockshut, crepusculum.

Antonyms for dusk

Common opposites include dawn, daybreak.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gloaming, evenfall, nightfall, twilight, fall, sunset.

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