DAYLIGHT Antonyms

• Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx

• the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

• a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

• the period spent sleeping

• the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit

• darkness

• a shortening of nightfall

• the time between sunset and midnight

• the time of day immediately following sunset

• become dusk

• the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

• a later concluding time period

• the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way

• a state of partial or total darkness

• a feeling of melancholy apprehension

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

• the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

• an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known

• the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination

• shade within clear boundaries

• an unilluminated area

• something existing in perception only

• a premonition of something adverse

• an indication that something has been present

• refuge from danger or observation

• a dominating and pervasive presence

• a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

• an inseparable companion

• follow, usually without the person's knowledge

• cast a shadow over

• make appear small by comparison

• the time of day immediately following sunset

• the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

• a condition of decline following successes

• lighted by or as if by twilight