dead of night

NOUN

dark

Synonyms

STRONGEST

darkness dusk shade

STRONG

dimness evening gloom midnight murk night nightfall nighttime obscurity semidarkness shadows twilight

WEAK

witching hour

Antonyms

STRONGEST

brightness light

STRONG

daybreak

WEAK

cognizance day daylight daytime illumination intelligence lightness morning sense sensibility understanding

NOUN

midnight

Synonyms

WEAK

12 o'clock at night bewitching hour small hours twelve o'clock at night witching hour

NOUN

murkiness

Synonyms

STRONG

darkness dimness dusk duskiness evening gloom midnight murk night nightfall nighttime obscureness obscurity opacity semidarkness shade shadows twilight

WEAK

caliginosity witching hour

Antonyms

STRONG

brightness day daybreak light morning

NOUN

night

Synonyms

STRONGEST

midnight

STRONG

bedtime blackness dark darkness duskiness evening eventide gloom nightfall nighttime obscurity twilight

WEAK

after dark after hours before dawn dark hours dusk to dawn nighttide pitch dark pitch-darkness witching hour

Antonyms

STRONG

day daybreak daylight daytime light morning

WEAK

brightness illumination lightness

NOUN

obscureness

Synonyms

STRONG

darkness dimness dusk duskiness evening gloom midnight murk murkiness night nightfall nighttime obscurity opacity semidarkness shade shadows twilight

WEAK

caliginosity witching hour

Antonyms

STRONG

brightness day daybreak light morning

NOUN

witching hour

Synonyms

WEAK

black mass hush of night midnight midnight hours twelve o'clock wee small hours

Example Sentences

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Ten months after the most mind-boggling trade in basketball history went down in the dead of night, only one thing is unsurprising.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

Currently, exchanges and brokers use the dead of night to handle a host of rarely thought-of functions.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Then came a flash of light so bright that in the dead of night they could briefly see out their window the rocks and gullies of the San Gabriel foothills behind their house.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

By the next day he was warning the roughly 10 million residents of Tehran, Iran's capital, to flee in the dead of night.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2025

What about issuing stickers printed with the words “This apostrophe is not necessary”? What about telling people to shin up ladders at dead of night with an apostrophe-shaped stencil and a tin of paint?

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

dead of night

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