twilit

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: twīʹlĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈtwaɪlɪt/

Verb

twilit

1. simple past tense and past participle of twilight

Alternative forms

• (simple past): twilighted
• (past participle): twilitten, twilighted

Adjective

twilit (not comparable)

1. Illuminated by or as if by twilight.
   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables — Will o’ the Mill, page 79:

     He was like someone lying in twilit, formless, preëxistence, and stretching out his hands lovingly towards many-coloured, many-sounding life.

   • 1959, Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan, New York: Dial, 2006, Chapter 10, p. 241,^[1]

     The effect of the closing inside the booths was to turn the line of concessions into a twilit tunnel.

Translations

illuminated by twilight

• Catalan: llostre (ca)
• German: dämmrig
• Ukrainian: сутінковий (uk) m (sutinkovyj), присмерковий (uk) m (prysmerkovyj)