Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past of twilight.
- v. Past participle of twilight
- adj. Illuminated by or as if by twilight.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lighted by or as if by twilight
Etymologies
- Past participial form of to twilight. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's not difficult to see Parker's point: Milne's plays are steeped in a kind of twilit cutesiness that gives the impression they were written in scented violet ink.”
“(Not just in veiled terms, either -- with a Japanese and an American war vet thrown into one of his twilit scenarios.)”
““Ssh,” someone said, hovering over her in the dim, twilit room.”
“Once the children have reached maturity they leave their school-type community and embark on a twilit adult life, in which they are given limited access to the normal world while they await the summons to make their first "donation".”
“Above, sunlight shined in through the windows of the cupola, imparting a hazy, twilit glow to the circular space.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
“Mars, mag 1.4 and reddish in hue, is 8° below-left of the Pleiades as it rises into the twilit NE sky at 02:45 BST on the 1st.”
“# Davidon 30 Apr 2009 at 8: 01 pm just out of cureosaty who published twilit and Eragon?”
“As the minutes flowed into hours, slowly, one by one and in small groups the terrified people emerged from their places of refuge and stared unblinking into the twilit sky.”
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“If the shuttle Endeavour meets its scheduled launch time of 20:47 BST on the 29th, there may be a chance for spacewatchers in southern Britain to spot it less than 20 minutes later as it crosses the brightly twilit SSW sky as seen from S England.”
“Anna slept much of the day in the twilit room, and soundly all night.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘twilit’.
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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lanas's Words
serendipitous, insouciant, charming, sanguine, dear, odd, quaint, small, tremble, blush, flirt, tryst and 248 more...
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Words + Phrases I Like
apotheosis, antipode, penumbra, umbra, bellatrix, zephyr, oblivion, nefarious, wicked, requiem, catalyst, ire and 89 more...
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harry p
travesty, twilit, amort, fussy, sentinel, balustrade, lumbago, trice, gable, unwonted, impunity, perfunctory and 104 more...
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5-1
Hecko, words! Thanks for staying with me. :-)
avenue, viscous, zeroth, usher, scarcely, viability, snout, sole, purify, riotous, menace, moist and 364 more...
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twilight words
And while we're on the subject, here's a poem I found many years ago, and still love, about a certain kind of twilight.
TO THE BIRDS
today before night came the sky...twilight, dusk, ughten, gloaming, dawn, evening, morning, daybreak, nightfall, twilit, even, sunrise and 11 more...
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Words.
synesthesia, synaesthesia, twilit, twilight, abysmal, perpetual, mellifluous, incandescent, brilliant, radiant, articulate, discombobulated and 55 more...
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philology at its best
philology, philolphile, zeitgeist, slicker, wherewithal, auteur, lovelorn, oeuvre, gastronomy, wanderlust, ephemeron, star-crossed and 48 more...
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The Crying of Lot 49
Nifty words from a wonderful novel
codicil, twilit, shim, triptych, chrism, censer, lambent, kasher, hierophany, caroming, frieze, carom and 28 more...
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candied blossoms
A honeypot of miscellany. Take a handful!
tellurian, noesis, epistolary, discalced, mysidian, sincerity, intricacy, epic, scintillating, coruscate, opulent, ornate and 26 more...
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The Sirens of Titan
Words gathered while reading The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
edwardian, rakehell, chrono-synclastic..., parvenu, chiton, dottle, ort, residua, narwhal, lulu, peyotl, peignoir and 49 more...
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