twilit
/ˈtwaɪlɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Illuminated by or as if by twilight; half-lit.
verb
simple past and past participle of twilight
Example Sentences
- "He was like someone lying in twilit, formless, preëxistence, and stretching out his hands lovingly towards many-coloured, many-sounding life."
- "The effect of the closing inside the booths was to turn the line of concessions into a twilit tunnel."
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈtwaɪlɪt/