Crepuscular

Word CREPUSCULAR
Character 11
Hyphenation cre pus cu lar
Pronunciations /kɹɪˈpʌskjʊlə/

Definitions and meanings of "Crepuscular"

What do we mean by crepuscular?

Of or like twilight; dim. adjective

Active primarily at dawn or dusk or both. Used of animals. adjective

Occurring at dawn or dusk or both: adjective

Pertaining to or resembling twilight; glimmering.

In zoology, flying or appearing in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise: as, the crepuscular or nocturnal Lepidoptera.

Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. adjective

Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects. adjective

Of or resembling twilight; dim adjective

Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight adjective

Like twilight; dim adjective

Of or resembling twilight; dim.

Active at or around dusk, dawn or twilight.

1) Formal: Refers to an animal that is active during twilight. 2) Slang: Refers to a human that is active at night. (See also: Insomnia, nocturnality Urban Dictionary

Of, resembling, or relating to twighlight. -ZOOLOGY (of an animal) appearing or active in twighlight Urban Dictionary

It's basically just an alternative to awesome Urban Dictionary

Adjective: Unqualified; particularly when used in context of reviewing another person's work. Urban Dictionary

What you call tasty almonds. They can be any type of almonds, as long as they are good. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Crepuscular

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The word "crepuscular" in example sentences

As I made a mental note of Hitchens' casual use of the word "crepuscular," the Maryland professor grumbled in my direction. ❋ Sean Carman (2011)

Garrett, does the word crepuscular do anything for you? ❋ Unknown (2008)

You might call it a dreamscape, but they say no, it's "crepuscular" - it's the slippery moment just after you wake up, between sleep and wakefulness. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Boars are crepuscular, that is they forage from dusk until dawn and they are the only hoofed animals known to dig burrows. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe he was trying to find that "crepuscular" place where left and right brain coexist in a harmonious union. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)

A haze of cement dust blanketed the wreckage, softening sharp edges and muffling all sounds in its dreary crepuscular light. ❋ Annia Ciezadlo (2011)

People view Mike Nelson's installation which turns the British Pavilion into a 'disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages'. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We end on the battlefield at night, with the corpses preyed on by a stooping figure who resembled "those crepuscular figures that haunt ruins". ❋ Unknown (2011)

Is it a sweeping multi-generational supernatural romance saga about Beavers or some other crepuscular animal? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I want to tell you that up front, because Woolf, who died 70 years ago this year, is so often portrayed as the Dark Lady of English letters, all glowery and sad, looking balefully on from a crepuscular corner of literary history with a stone lodged in her pocket. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Two members of staff were busy with customers and two more were assembling glossy black tables for huge tellys in the crepuscular rear of the shop. ❋ Unknown (2012)

And the understated and beautiful palette, a blend of pallid greys and silvery greenish hues, casts the scene in a crepuscular light that lends a somber mood to the episode. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Thus Jerome emphasises the crepuscular setting, and a certain psychic distance opens up between shroud and sudarium. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar. ❋ Unknown (2009)

1) [Fireflies] are crepuscular animals. 2) [Jimmy's] [biological father] is a crepuscular human. ❋ VbPeppermint (2007)

The crepuscular [realm] of [the writer's] own reveries. ([Hawthorne]) ❋ ELCO (2006)

[that dog] was [totally] crepuscular ❋ ELCO (2006)

"[The reviewer's] dumb ass gave the file a bad score, but that's only because the [crepuscular] son of a bitch had [a 3rd grade] vocabulary." ❋ JohnGSpaghetti (2023)

[Dude], those are [freakin] [crepuscular] almonds! ❋ Troy Holleman (2007)

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