twilit.

Lit by twilight, or by similarly soft, dim illumination.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• twilit sky
• twilit room
• twilit shore

On the page

A lone cyclist crossed the twilit bridge before the streetlights came on.

Usage notes

Primary category: poetic / figurative / atmospheric. Lexical Type: Word. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Commonness: uncommon (editorial estimate; not a corpus frequency statistic). Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1; numbered fields keep each relevant meaning separate. Research distinction: Independent lexical adjective formed from twilight plus lit; actual light need not be evening. Unlike twilight as a time noun, directly modifies a scene or object. Writing functions: atmospheric description, sensory precision.