adusk
English
Etymology
From a- (“on, at”) + dusk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈdʌsk/
Adverb
adusk (not comparable)
- (rare) At dusk; in the dusk or twilight.
Adjective
adusk (comparative more adusk, superlative most adusk)
- (rare) Resembling conditions at dusk or twilight, low-lit, dark; in darkness, gloomy.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh:
- You wish to die and leave the world adusk
For others, with your naughty light blown out?
- 1866, William Conant Church, The Galaxy, volume 2, page 262:
- The low sun had already made it adusk in the ravine, and she walked on to seek the crimson that must soon be burning over sky and sea.