Antonyms for half-lights
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : haf-lahyt, hahf- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhæfˌlaɪt, ˈhɑf- |
Definition of half-lights
- As in twilight : noun onset of darkness at end of day
- As in first light : noun daybreak
- She was more nervous than she appeared, and she was glad of the half-lights.
- Extract from : « The Silver Poppy » by Arthur Stringer
- Thanks to Margaret's hints and half-lights, I did well enough.
- Extract from : « The Yeoman Adventurer » by George W. Gough
- The half-lights of Symbolist mysticism are remote from his hard glare.
- Extract from : « Recent Developments in European Thought » by Various
- But as I grow old, the half-lights of evening are far more to me.
- Extract from : « Complete Prose Works » by Walt Whitman
- It is full also of the tantalizing suggestiveness, the half-lights and shades, of April and May.
- Extract from : « Birds and Poets » by John Burroughs
- I would live in the little house with a friend of my heart—a friend in the shadows and half-lights and brilliances.
- Extract from : « My Friend Annabel Lee » by Mary MacLane
- The blinds were drawn, but even in the half-lights its proportions appeared shrunken, its furnishings shabby and poor.
- Extract from : « Lady Cassandra » by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
- He looked about him with quick, practised eye for a camping-place before the sun sank below the forests and the half-lights came.
- Extract from : « The Wolves of God » by Algernon Blackwood
- The man of half-lights who acts with a promptitude often disastrous, is indeed narrow, but I deny that he is strong.
- Extract from : « Platform Monologues » by T. G. Tucker
- In the half-lights of the crowded, covered bazaar his was a setting in which Dulac would have revelled.
- Extract from : « War in the Garden of Eden » by Kermit Roosevelt
Synonyms for half-lights
- afterglow
- afterlight
- aurora
- break of day
- cocklight
- crack of dawn
- crepuscular light
- dawn
- dawning
- dawnlight
- day-peep
- daylight
- decline
- dimness
- dusk
- early evening
- ebb
- end
- evening
- eventide
- flush of the morning
- gloaming
- glow
- half-light
- last phase
- late-afternoon
- morning
- night
- nightfall
- peep of day
- sundown
- sunrise
- sunset
- sunup
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