dusk

dusk is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
2. noun. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
3. noun. A darkish color.
4. transitive verb. To make dusk.
5. intransitive verb. To grow dusk.
6. noun. the time of day immediately following sunset

   "he loved the twilight"

   "they finished before the fall of night"

   Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight

7. verb. become dusk

Synonyms

crepuscle, crepuscule, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight

Common word forms

dusks, dusked, dusken, duskly, dusking, duskness

Words from these letters

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