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Twilight vs Twilit - What's the difference?

twilight | twilit |

As adjectives the difference between twilight and twilit

is that twilight is pertaining to or resembling twilight while twilit is illuminated by or as if by twilight.

As a noun twilight

is the soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

As a verb twilit is

simple past of twilight.

twilight

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
  • :
  • The time when this light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
  • (lb) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
  • Any faint light through which something is seen; an in-between or fading condition.
  • *(John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • *:The twilight of probability.

    • Synonyms

    * evenfall, eventide, gloaming

    Coordinate terms

    * evening * golden hour * nightfall * sundown

    Hyponyms

    * dawn * dusk

    Derived terms

    * astronomical twilight * civil twilight * nautical twilight * twilightish * twilighty * twilight years * twilight zone

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to or resembling twilight.
    • O’er the twilight groves and dusky caves. —(Alexander Pope).

    See also

    * crepuscular

    twilit

    English

    Etymology 1

    Imperfect form of .

    Alternative forms

    * twilighted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (twilight)

    • Etymology 2

    Past participial form of .

    Alternative forms

    * twilitten * twilighted

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Illuminated by or as if by twilight.
  • * 1887 : , page 79
    • He was like someone lying in twilit , formless, preëxistence, and stretching out his hands lovingly towards many-coloured, many-sounding life.