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Dusk vs Lusk - What's the difference?

dusk | lusk |

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)
  • A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
  • A darkish colour.
  • * Dryden
  • Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.

    Synonyms

    * sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespers

    Antonyms

    * dawn

    Hyponyms

    * gloaming * twilight

    See also

    *

    See also

    * crepuscular

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
  • * , More Poems , XXXIII, lines 25-27
  • I see the air benighted
    And all the dusking dales,
    And lamps in England lighted,
  • To make dusk.
  • * Holland
  • After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
  • * Milton
  • A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

    Anagrams

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    lusk

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • lazy or slothful
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a lazy or slothful person
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be idle or unemployed.
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