twilight

nouns

the time of day immediately following sunset
"he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight
the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
twilight
is a type of (narrower)
(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
"the light was filtered through a soft glass window"
light, visible light, visible radiation
a condition of decline following successes
"in the twilight of the empire"
twilight
is a type of (narrower)
a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
declination, decline

adjectives

lighted by or as if by twilight
"The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
dusky, twilight, twilit