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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | onset of darkness at end of day |
| Synonyms: | afterglow, afterlight, crepuscular light, decline, dimness, dusk, early evening, ebb, end, evening, eventide, gloaming, half-light, last phase, late-afternoon, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset |
| Antonyms: | daybreak, sunrise |
| 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: | dusk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early evening |
| Synonyms: | dark, dimday, dimmet, eventide, gloaming, gloom, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Antonyms: | dawn |
| Main Entry: | dusky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dark-hued; murky |
| Synonyms: | adusk, bistered, bleak, brunette, caliginous, cheerless, cloudy, crepuscular, dark, dark-complexioned, darkish, desolate, dim, dismal, dull, funereal, gloomy, joyless, lightless, obscure, overcast, sable, shadowy, shady, swart, swarthy, tenebrous, twilight, twilit, unilluminated, veiled |
| Antonyms: | bright, clear, light |
| 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: | nightfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning of darkness |
| Synonyms: | black*, crepuscule, dim, dusk, eve, eventide, sundown, sunset, twilight, vespers |
| Antonyms: | daybreak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | soft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | faint, temperate |
| Synonyms: | ashen, balmy, bland, caressing, comfortable, cool, cushy, delicate, diffuse, dim, dimmed, dulcet, dull, dusky, gentle, hazy, lenient, light, low, low-key, mellifluous, mellow, melodious, mild, misty, murmured, muted, pale, pallid, pastel, pleasing, quiet, restful, shaded, smooth, sober, soothing, subdued, sweet, tinted, toned down, twilight, understated, wan, whispered |
| Antonyms: | harsh, loud, rough, severe |
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