Meanings
- not comparableIlluminated by or as if by twilight; half-lit.
The effect of the closing inside the booths was to turn the line of concessions into a twilit tunnel.
1959, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 10, in The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, published 2006, page 2411 more example
He was like someone lying in twilit, formless, preëxistence, and stretching out his hands lovingly towards many-coloured, many-sounding life.
1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables — Will o’ the Mill, page 79Synonyms: twilighted, twilitten
alternative twilighted · alternative twilitten · alternative twilighted
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of twilight
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveIlluminated by or as if by twilight; half-lit.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan llostre
- llostreilluminated by twilight
German dämmrig
- dämmrigilluminated by twilight
Ukrainian сутінковий, присмерковий
- сутінковий (sutinkovyj)illuminated by twilight
- присмерковий (prysmerkovyj)illuminated by twilight
Cite this entry
twilit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twilit
“twilit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twilit. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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