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What is the adjective for nighttime?

What's the adjective for nighttime? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb night which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

nightly
  1. Happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal.
  2. Performing, occurring, or taking place every night.
  3. Used in the night.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. nighttime, nocturnal, night, evening, night-time, late, after dark, twilight, dawn, late-night, of the night, after-hours, crepuscular, twilit, dusky, twilightish, night-loving, p.m., late at night, late in the evening, afternoon, after lunch … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The Minnesota governor hasn't even left office, but he's already close to a big bucks deal with MSNBC to host a nightly talk show.”
nighttime
  1. Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night.
  2. Happening during the night.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. nocturnal, night, nightly, night-time, evening, late, after dark, twilight, dawn, late-night, after-hours, of the night, crepuscular, twilit, dusky, twilightish, night-loving … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The nighttime apparitions continued, but less frequently, taking place only once a week.”
nighted
  1. Dark; clouded
  2. Overtaken by night; belated
nightlike
  1. Resembling night or some aspect of it; dark, tenebrous.
nightless
  1. Without night.
  2. Examples:
      3. “There was no wind after they left for six days so they rowed and arrived at a nightless island called Lamnos.”
      “It's an unpretentious, stylish and not particularly original B movie about space travelers marooned on a nearly nightless desert planet.”
      “The nightless night can last up to 60 days in Lapland, and from the middle of June until August, the sun never sets but hangs low over the horizon.”
nightward
  1. Toward night.
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