twilight

twilight is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18� below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18� below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
2. noun. faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
3. adjective. Seen or done by twilight.
4. adjective. Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.
5. noun. the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
6. noun. a condition of decline following successes

   "in the twilight of the empire"

7. noun. the time of day immediately following sunset

   "he loved the twilight"

   "they finished before the fall of night"

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

8. adjective. lighted by or as if by twilight-Henry Fielding

   "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"

   "the twilight glow of the sky"

   Synonyms: dusky, twilit

Synonyms

crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, dusky, twilit

Common word forms

twilights, twilighted, twilightless

Words from these letters

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