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duskiness
| Main Entry: |
duskiness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dark |
| Synonyms: | blackness, darkness, dimness, dusk, murkiness, night, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time that is unlit |
| Synonyms: | Cimmerian shade, black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity, twilight |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latter part of a day |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Antonyms: | morning |
| Main Entry: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness, blackness |
| Synonyms: | bleakness, cloud, cloudiness, dimness, dullness, dusk, duskiness, gloominess, murk, murkiness, obscurity, shade, shadow, twilight |
| Antonyms: | brightness, light, sunniness |
| Main Entry: | night |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part of day after sundown and before sunrise |
| Synonyms: | after dark, after hours, bedtime, before dawn, black*, blackness, dark, dark hours, darkness, dead of night, dim, dusk to dawn, duskiness, evening, eventide, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttide, nighttime, obscurity*, pitch dark, twilight, witching hour |
| Antonyms: | day |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | blackness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | dark, dimness, duskiness, gloom, murkiness, nightfall, total darkness |
| Antonyms: | light, lightness |
| Main Entry: | dimness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
| Synonyms: | blackness, dark, duskiness, gloom, murk, murkiness, shade |
| Main Entry: | gloaming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evening |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Main Entry: | murkiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dark |
| Synonyms: | caliginosity, darkness, dead of night, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscureness, obscurity, opacity, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour |
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