foredawn
Just before dawn
Foredawn is the time just before dawn—the interval when darkness begins to lift but the sun has not yet risen.
The word is poetic and rare, appearing mostly in literary contexts: In the foredawn chill, she set out for the harbor.
It suggests anticipation of light rather than light itself.
Arousing strong emotion
- wakingRegaining consciousness from sleep
- rousingExciting strong feeling
- arisingComing into being
- daybreakMorning's first light
sunrise · cockcrow · aurora · threshold · emergence · breaking · lightening · brightening
Total lack of sound
serenity · tranquility · peace · repose · placidity · quietude · hushed · noiseless
stirring
Arousing strong emotion
daybreak · sunrise · cockcrow · aurora · threshold · emergence · breaking · lightening · brightening · birdcall
silence
Total lack of sound
calm · serenity · tranquility · peace · repose · placidity · quietude · hushed · noiseless · soundless
predawn
Before daybreak hours
shadowy · gloom · murk · obscurity · blackness · nightside · crepuscular · penumbra · half-light · glimmering
chill
Cold sensation or relaxation
coolness · freshness · crispness · dampness · moisture · dewy · misty · ethereal · liminal · hushed