Synonyms for dusk

Most common

nightfall · twilight · sunset · night

All synonyms

Noun

Verb

Antonyms

dawn, daybreak, sunrise

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Definitions

1. n. 1

   The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.

   We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.

2. v. 1

   To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.

Related words

Is a kind of

twilight

Forms

Plural

dusks → nightfalls, twilights, sunsets, sundowns…

Past participle

dusked
e.g. dusked → shaded, darkened…

Example sentences

• evening Gloria was easily the best singer of that evening.
• sunset The farmer rose at sunrise and worked till sunset.
• nightfall Let's stay until nightfall and watch the fireworks.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

set¹, dim¹

4 letters

fall¹, dark¹

5 letters

night¹, shade¹, gloam¹

6 letters

sunset², darken²

7 letters

evening², sundown², vespers

8 letters

twilight², gloaming², evenfall

9 letters

nightfall², smokefall

10 letters

crepuscule, nightbreak

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sunset² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

crépuscule

Italiano

crepuscolo

Español

crepúsculo

Deutsch

Abenddämmerung

Català

crepuscle