Synonyms of evening

evening 1 of 3

noun

ˈēv-niŋ 

1

as in afternoon

a later period of one's life

now in the evening of their lives, the married couple are ready to hand the family business over to the next generation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• afternoon
• age
• autumn
• twilight
• winter
• afterlife
• middle
• sunset
• maturity
• adulthood
• dotage
• senility
• golden years
• majority
• middle age
• anecdotage
• seniority
• midlife
• elderliness
• ripeness
• oldness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• youth
• springtime
• adolescence

2

as in night

the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness

in the evening a reddish glow often appears on the mountaintops

Synonyms & Similar Words

• night
• sunset
• dusk
• twilight
• eve
• nightfall
• sundown
• eventide
• gloaming
• dark
• crepuscle
• nighttime
• crepuscule
• evenfall
• darkness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• morning
• dawn
• daybreak
• sunrise
• day
• daylight
• morn
• dawning
• aurora
• daytime
• light
• sunup
• forenoon
• cockcrow

evening

2 of 3

adjective

as in black-tie

Synonyms & Similar Words

• black-tie
• white-tie
• tailored
• fitted
• semiformal
• in
• fashionable
• chic
• stylish
• dapper
• formal
• modish
• custom-made
• natty
• costume
• dress
• dressy
• snappy
• smart
• sharp
• costumey

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• informal
• casual
• street
• sporty
• outmoded
• unfashionable
• sportif
• sloppy
• dowdy
• slovenly
• untidy
• unkempt
• messy
• frowzy
• grungy
• dishevelled
• disheveled
• wrinkled
• frowsy
• rumpled
• unstylish
• styleless
• mussy
• sloven

evening

3 of 3

verb

present participle of even

1

as in smoothing

to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps

even the filling before adding the top layer of the cake

Synonyms & Similar Words

• smoothing
• shaving
• trimming
• planing
• levelling
• flattening
• laying
• clipping
• combing
• leveling
• paring
• raking
• cropping
• pruning
• smoothening
• spreading
• pressing
• carding
• surfacing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• roughing
• roughening
• bending
• wrinkling
• pitting
• coarsening
• rumpling
• denting
• kinking

2

as in balancing

to make equal in amount, degree, or status

the contention that producing more arms will even us with the enemy and therefore make us more secure

Synonyms & Similar Words

• balancing
• adjusting
• equating
• equalizing
• levelling
• compensating
• fitting
• leveling
• equilibrating
• accommodating
• counterbalancing
• equipoising
• standardizing
• normalizing
• regularizing
• democratizing
• homogenizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disequilibrating

Examples of evening in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

The vice president also partook in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier on Wednesday evening. —Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 17 Oct. 2024

Invest time in improving your sleep hygiene, which means taking steps like avoiding caffeine and alcohol in the evening, limiting naps, and putting away electronics before bed, Miravalle advises. —Angela Haupt, TIME, 17 Oct. 2024

Adjective

Evening practice brings back high school memories for some Ducks. —Tyson Alger, OregonLive.com, 9 Aug. 2017

Evening entertainment runs to joining locals at the town's ever-hopping Mini Golf Club, open until someone has finally had enough. —Cnt Editors, CNT, 31 May 2017