| Main Entry: | nightfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning of darkness |
Synonyms: |
black*, crepuscule, dim, dusk, eve, eventide, sundown, sunset, twilight, vespers |
Antonyms: |
daybreak |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time without light |
Synonyms: |
caliginosity, darkness, dead of night, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, murkiness, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour |
Antonyms: |
brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
| Main Entry: | sunset |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fall of sun below horizon |
Synonyms: |
close of day, crepusular light, dusk, eve, evening, eventide, gloaming, nightfall, sundown, twilight |
Antonyms: |
sunrise |
| Main Entry: | twilight |
| 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: | blackness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
Synonyms: |
dark, dimness, duskiness, gloom, murkiness, nightfall, total darkness |
Antonyms: |
light, lightness |
| Main Entry: | nighttime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | darkness |
Synonyms: |
bedtime, dusk, midnight, night, nightfall |