Need another word that means the same as “dusk”? Find 23 synonyms and 30 related words for “dusk” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Dusk” are: crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, sunset, sundown, evening, close of day, darkness, dark, gloominess, dimness, blackness, murkiness, murk, shadows, shade, shadiness, obscurity
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “dusk” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| blackness | The property or quality of being black in colour. The blackness of the human heart through the atrocities of war. |
| close of day | The temporal end; the concluding time. |
| crepuscle | The time of day immediately following sunset. |
| crepuscule | Twilight. |
| dark | The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside. His lectures dispelled the darkness. |
| darkness | Unhappiness or gloom. The powers of darkness. |
| dimness | The state of being poorly illuminated. |
| evenfall | The time of day immediately following sunset. He kindles his lamp at evenfall. |
| evening | An evening characterized by a particular event or activity. The evening meal. |
| fall | A controlled act of falling especially as a stunt or in martial arts. They finished before the fall of night. |
| gloam | The time of day immediately following sunset. |
| gloaming | Twilight; dusk. Hundreds of lights are already shimmering in the gloaming. |
| gloominess | An atmosphere of depression and melancholy. |
| murk | Darkness or thick mist that makes it difficult to see. My eyes were straining to see through the murk of the rainy evening. |
| murkiness | An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance. |
| nightfall | The time of day immediately following sunset. We had to get back by nightfall. |
| obscurity | The quality of being difficult to understand. He worked in obscurity for many years. |
| shade | A lampshade. He wore shades and a leather jacket. |
| shadiness | Of questionable honesty or legality. They acted with such obvious shadiness that they were instantly recognizable. |
| shadows | Shade within clear boundaries. The poor child was his mother's shadow. |
| sundown | The time in the evening when the sun disappears or daylight fades. |
| sunset | The colours and light visible in the sky on an occasion of the sun’s disappearance in the evening, considered as a view or spectacle. Sunset was still a couple of hours away. |
| twilight | The period of the evening when twilight is visible between daylight and darkness. A twilight world of secrecy. |
| afternoon | In the afternoon every afternoon. I ll be back at three in the afternoon. |
| awake | Become aware of; come to a realization of. Awake to the dangers of her situation. |
| crepuscular | Resembling or relating to twilight. The evening s crepuscular charm. |
| curfew | The daily signal indicating the beginning of a curfew. They had to return before the curfew sounded. |
| dawn | The beginning of a phenomenon or period of time, especially one considered favourable. The awful truth was beginning to dawn on him. |
| daybreak | The first light of day. She set off at daybreak. |
| evening | An evening characterized by a particular event or activity. A couple in evening dress. |
| friday | The sixth day of the week; the fifth working day. |
| gloaming | Twilight; dusk. Hundreds of lights are already shimmering in the gloaming. |
| midnight | The middle period of the night. The midnight hours. |
| monday | The second day of the week; the first working day. |
| morning | Every morning. They talked until morning. |
| nightfall | The time of day immediately following sunset. We had to get back by nightfall. |
| nocturnal | Of or relating to or occurring in the night. Most owls are nocturnal. |
| noon | The middle of the day. The service starts at twelve noon. |
| o'clock | According to the clock. |
| saturday | The seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians. |
| sunday | United States evangelist (1862-1935. |
| sunrise | The first light of day. An hour before sunrise. |
| sunset | (of a programme, agency, regulation, etc.) expire or be terminated automatically at the end of a fixed period unless renewed by legislative action. A blue and gold sunset. |
| thursday | The fifth day of the week; the fourth working day. |
| tomorrow | The near future. I have work to do tomorrow morning. |
| tonight | The present or immediately coming night. Tonight is a night to remember. |
| tuesday | The third day of the week; the second working day. |
| twilight | Lighted by or as if by twilight Henry Fielding. A pleasant walk in the woods at twilight. |
| wake | Be awake be alert be there. His workers absented themselves for the local wakes. |
| wednesday | The fourth day of the week; the third working day. |
| week | The time spent working during a week. I work during the week so I can only get to this shop on Saturdays. |
| weekday | Any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday. The weekday rush hour. |
| yesterday | In the recent past; only a short time ago. It was in yesterday s newspapers. |
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