dusk

Meaning

Adj

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

Noun

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

Verb

1. To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
2. To make dusk.

Synonyms

twilight

evening

🌆

nightfall

sunset

gloaming

dark

candlelight

darkness

dim

crepuscule

night

🌃

sundown

half-light

evenfall

night-time

late afternoon

eventide

dawn

fall

gloom

murky

obscure

gloam

crepuscle

owl-light

gloomy

eve

blur

dusky

semi-darkness

dimness

faint light

shady

somber

sombre

tonight

vagueness

vesper

window

🪟

evening twilight

get late

obnubilate

toward evening

twilight scene

lamp-lighting time

lighting-up time

poor light

mirky

six o’clock in the evening

the beginning of night

nightfull

grow dusky

abstruse

crepusculum

afternoon

bedim

benight

black

blackness

blear

blind man’s holiday

blurred

blurry

cloud

☁️

cloudy

☁️

crepuscular

cryptic

darken

deaden

dingy

duskiness

early evening

elusive

fade

faint

haze

haziness

hole

🕳️

late

murk

obscurity

opaque

overcast

recondite

shadowy

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dʌsk/

Etymology

From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).