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Definition of crepuscular in English: crepuscularadjective krɪˈpʌskjʊləkrɛˈpʌskjʊləkrəˈpəskjələr 1Resembling or relating to twilight. Example sentencesExamples - The last three miles go fast, and the canyon opens up to a crepuscular dome of sky.
- Deskbound in the yellow room during the crepuscular hour, I'm typing scientific syntax, window flung open.
- It's a well-worn dichotomy, but the song's gently strummed guitar and the high, wending melody that draws nearer, moving like mysterious lights in the crepuscular sky, invest it with new promise.
- It felt good to stretch my legs walking up the hill and the flowers were glorious in the crepuscular light.
- Back in the crepuscular gloom of my Tyneside flat, the result seemed satisfactory.
- Darkness breeds silence, and this show basks in crepuscular gloom.
Synonyms indistinct, faint, vague, ill-defined, unclear, blurred, blurry, misty, hazy, foggy, veiled, cloudy, clouded, nebulous, fuzzy - 1.1Zoology (of an animal) appearing or active in twilight.
Example sentencesExamples - Most species of falconids are diurnal, though some are crepuscular.
- Thus it may normally be crepuscular or nocturnal in its feeding and swimming behavior.
- Red foxes are terrestrial and either nocturnal or crepuscular.
- Broadbills tend to show crepuscular activity patterns.
- Most communication systems in luminescent fireflies have been studied in nocturnal species; little is known concerning communication in crepuscular and diurnal species.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin crepusculum 'twilight' + -ar1. Rhymes majuscular, minuscular, muscular Definition of crepuscular in US English: crepuscularadjectivekrəˈpəskjələrkrəˈpəskyələr 1Of, resembling, or relating to twilight. Example sentencesExamples - Darkness breeds silence, and this show basks in crepuscular gloom.
- The last three miles go fast, and the canyon opens up to a crepuscular dome of sky.
- Back in the crepuscular gloom of my Tyneside flat, the result seemed satisfactory.
- It's a well-worn dichotomy, but the song's gently strummed guitar and the high, wending melody that draws nearer, moving like mysterious lights in the crepuscular sky, invest it with new promise.
- It felt good to stretch my legs walking up the hill and the flowers were glorious in the crepuscular light.
- Deskbound in the yellow room during the crepuscular hour, I'm typing scientific syntax, window flung open.
Synonyms indistinct, faint, vague, ill-defined, unclear, blurred, blurry, misty, hazy, foggy, veiled, cloudy, clouded, nebulous, fuzzy - 1.1Zoology (of an animal) appearing or active in twilight.
Example sentencesExamples - Red foxes are terrestrial and either nocturnal or crepuscular.
- Thus it may normally be crepuscular or nocturnal in its feeding and swimming behavior.
- Most communication systems in luminescent fireflies have been studied in nocturnal species; little is known concerning communication in crepuscular and diurnal species.
- Most species of falconids are diurnal, though some are crepuscular.
- Broadbills tend to show crepuscular activity patterns.
Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin crepusculum ‘twilight’ + -ar. |