Dusk vs Lusk - What's the difference?
dusk | lusk |
A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
A darkish colour.
* Dryden
to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
* ,
To make dusk.
* Holland
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
* Milton
As nouns the difference between dusk and lusk
is that dusk is a period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets while lusk is a lazy or slothful person.As verbs the difference between dusk and lusk
is that dusk is to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk while lusk is to be idle or unemployed.As adjectives the difference between dusk and lusk
is that dusk is tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky while lusk is lazy or slothful.dusk
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
Synonyms
* sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespersAntonyms
* dawnHyponyms
* gloaming * twilightSee also
*See also
* crepuscularVerb
(en verb)More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
- I see the air benighted
- And all the dusking dales,
- And lamps in England lighted,
- After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
Adjective
(er)- A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.