predawn
Still pitch black
Predawn refers to the time just before dawn—the dark hours preceding sunrise.
As an adjective, it describes things occurring in this period: a predawn raid, predawn darkness.
The word emphasizes the earliness and often the quietness or secrecy of the hour: She left in the predawn stillness.
Morning light's arrival
- daybreakMorning's first light
- first lightEarliest morning brightness
- cockcrowDawn, announced by fowl
- auroraAtmospheric light display
break of day · early bird · crepuscular · morning star · small hours · wee hours · sunup · early morning
Absence of sound
- tranquilityUndisturbed peacefulness
- serenityUndisturbed mental quietude
- calmnessPeaceful mental state
- silenceTotal lack of sound
quietude · lull · quiescence · restfulness · motionlessness · dormancy · peacefulness · soundlessness
Light after sunset
- dimnessInsufficient illumination
- shadowLight blocked by object
- obscurityState of being unknown
- blacknessComplete absence of light
murkiness · inkiness · gloom · moonless · starless · tenebrous · lightless · half-light
sunrise
Morning light's arrival
- daybreakMorning's first light
- first lightEarliest morning brightness
- cockcrowDawn, announced by fowl
aurora · break of day · early bird · crepuscular · morning star · small hours · wee hours · sunup · early morning
hush
Absence of sound
- tranquilityUndisturbed peacefulness
- serenityUndisturbed mental quietude
- calmnessPeaceful mental state
silence · quietude · lull · quiescence · restfulness · motionlessness · dormancy · peacefulness · soundlessness · undisturbed
twilight
Light after sunset
blackness · murkiness · inkiness · gloom · moonless · starless · tenebrous · lightless · half-light · murk
expectation
Belief about future outcomes
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- excitementState of eager enthusiasm
- preparationArranging things in advance
readiness · eagerness · prospect · waiting · stirring · waking · awakening · rousing · beginning · threshold
- morningmorning, sunrise, daybreak, mid-morning, early morning
- nighttimemidnight, nightfall, night sky, nighttime, starry sky
- daylight cycledusk, daylight, daytime, nighttime, sunrise
- daypartssunrise, morning, forenoon, midmorning, mid-morning
- nighttime thingsdarkness, moonlight, starlight, midnight, dusk
- Timesmorning, afternoon, evening, night, noon
predawndaylight
Sun's natural glow
broad daylight · full sun · high noon · midday sun · sunlit