'Dusk' definitions:
Definition of 'dusk'
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Definition of 'Dusk'
From: GCIDE
- Dusk \Dusk\, n.
- 1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A darkish color. [1913 Webster]
- Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dusk'
From: GCIDE
- Dusk \Dusk\, v. t. To make dusk. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth. --Holland. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dusk'
From: GCIDE
- Dusk \Dusk\, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dusk'
From: GCIDE
- Dusk \Dusk\, a. [OE. dusc, dosc, deosc; cf. dial. Sw. duska to drizzle, dusk a slight shower. ???.] Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. [1913 Webster]
- A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dusk'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bad light,
- blackish,
- broad day,
- brown of dusk,
- brownness,
- caliginous,
- candlelight,
- candlelighting,
- cocklight,
- crepuscular,
- crepuscule,
- dark,
- dark-colored,
- darken,
- darkish,
- darkishness,
- darkle,
- darksome,
- darksomeness,
- dawn,
- day,
- day glow,
- daylight,
- dayshine,
- daytide,
- daytime,
- deadness,
- dim,
- dim light,
- dimmish,
- dimness,
- dimpsy,
- drabness,
- dullness,
- duskiness,
- duskingtide,
- duskness,
- dusky,
- evening,
- evensong,
- eventide,
- flatness,
- full sun,
- funereal,
- gloam,
- gloaming,
- gloom,
- glooming,
- gloomy,
- grave,
- green flash,
- grow dark,
- grow dim,
- half-light,
- lack of sparkle,
- lackluster,
- lifelessness,
- light of day,
- lower,
- lusterlessness,
- mat,
- mat finish,
- midday sun,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- murksome,
- murky,
- nightfall,
- nigrescent,
- noonlight,
- noontide light,
- obscure,
- owllight,
- partial darkness,
- ray of sunshine,
- sad,
- semidark,
- shine,
- sober,
- somber,
- somberness,
- sombrous,
- subfusc,
- sun spark,
- sunbeam,
- sunbreak,
- sunburst,
- sundown,
- sunlight,
- sunset,
- sunsetty,
- sunshine,
- swart,
- swarthy,
- tenebrous,
- twilight,
- twilighty,
- unilluminated,
- vesper,
- vespertine