diurnal

diurnal is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
2. adjective. Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
3. adjective. Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.
4. adjective. Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.
5. adjective. A daybook; a journal.
6. adjective. A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.
7. adjective. A diurnal bird or insect.
8. adjective. of or belonging to or active during the day

   "diurnal animals are active during the day"

   "diurnal flowers are open during the day and closed at night"

9. adjective. having a daily cycle or occurring every day

   "diurnal rotation of the heavens"

Common word forms

diurnals, diurnally, diurnalness

Words from these letters

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