Dusk

Noun

 * 1) A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.

Synonyms

 * evenfall
 * smokefall
 * vespers

Antonyms

 * dawn

Hyponyms

 * gloaming
 * twilight

Verb

 * 1)  to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
 * 2) * Alfred Edward Housman, More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
 * I see the air benighted
 * And all the dusking dales,
 * And lamps in England lighted,

Adjectives for Dusk
growing; premature; eternal; grateful ; gathering; friendly; mournful; dolorous, rainy; wet; winter; moonlit; thickening; deepening; early; glittering; clear; whispering; soft; sweet; mellow; warm; humid; cool; softening; glimmering; green; deep; blue; moon-silvered; breathing.

Verbs for Dusk
diminish in—; dip in—; grope through—; haunt—; retire at—; wait for—; —clouds; —descends; —drifts in; —dulls ; —gives away; —harbors; —hovers; —obscures; — reveals; —shades; —shadows; —swallows; —thickens; —treads.

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

Etymology
From dosk:, duske:, from  dox:, from, from  (cf. Old Irish donn: 'dark', Latin fuscus: 'dark, dusky', Sanskrit undefined: 'dust-colored'), from *dhū, dheu- 'to smoke, dust'. More at. Related to dust.

Noun

 * Armenian: մթնշաղ (mt'nšaġ), աղջամուղջ (aġǰamuġǰ)
 * Bulgarian: здрач,, привечер
 * Catalan: crepuscle, capvespre
 * Chinese: 黄昏 (huánghūn)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: wɔle
 * Finnish:, illansuu
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, szürkület, esthajnal
 * Icelandic: ljósaskipti, húm
 * Indonesian: senja, sore


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 夕暮れ, 黄昏
 * Macedonian: самрак, квечерина
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , ocaso
 * Romanian: crepuscul apus
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మునిమాపు వేళ (munimaapu vaeLa), సాయం సంధ్య (saayaM saMdhya)
 * Volapük: soaralulit

Verb

 * Finnish: hämärtää, hämärtyä ; pimetä

Anagrams

 * skud