📖 Definitions of "Crepuscular"
adjective
- 1
Of or resembling twilight; dim.
- 2
Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.
🔄 Synonyms of "Crepuscular"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| darknoun | Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Crepuscular"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| darknoun | Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light. |
| crepusculous | Alternative form of crepuscular. [Of or resembling twilight; dim.] |
| crepusculine | Obsolete form of crepuscular. [Of or resembling twilight; dim.] |
| twilightish | (rare) Resembling twilight; crepuscular. |
| twilightlike | Resembling or characteristic of twilight. |
| twilightnoun | The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth. |
| twilit | Illuminated by or as if by twilight; half-lit |
| twilighty | Resembling or suggesting twilight. |
| duskynoun | A dusky shark. |
| dawnlikenoun | Resembling dawn or some aspect of it. |
| subfuscous | Duskish; moderately dark; tawny. |
| duskish | Somewhat dusky. |
| twilitten | (rare, nonstandard, poetic) Illuminated by or as if by twilight. |
| gloomy | Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected. |
| nightlikenoun | Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous. |
| nocturnelike | Resembling or characteristic of a nocturne. |
| noctiferous | (rare) night-time; dark like the night. |
| midnightish | Taking place around midnight. |
| dawnynoun | Resembling or characteristic of dawn. |
| sombre | Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit. |
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