night

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of NIGHT

the time from sunset to sunrise when there is no visible sunlight <loved to sit outside at night and watch the stars>

Synonyms dark, darkness, nighttime

Related Words dusk, evening, gloaming, nightfall, twilight; midnight

Near Antonyms dawn, daybreak, sunrise, sunup; forenoon, morning; high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, noontime; afternoon

Antonyms day, daytime

a time or place of little or no light <snuck out of town under the cover of night>

Synonyms black, blackness, candlelight, darkness, dusk, gloaming, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, umbra

Related Words midnight; blackout, brownout, dimout; shadiness, umbrage; dullness (also dulness), somberness; cloudiness, fogginess, haziness, mistiness, murkiness; dimness, faintness, gloominess, grayness, paleness; half-light

Near Antonyms moonlight, starlight, sunlight; effulgence, radiance, radiancy, shine, sunshine; incandescence, luminance, luminescence, luminosity, luminousness

Antonyms blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness

the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness <we waited until night to begin lighting the candles in the windows>

Synonyms crepuscule (or crepuscle), eve, evenfall, evening, eventide, gloaming, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight

Related Words dark, darkness, nighttime

Near Antonyms day, daytime, light; forenoon

Antonyms aurora, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup

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