dawning

The word “dawning” has 2 syllables: dawn-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈdɔːnɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for dawning?

In the thesaurus, “dawning” has 43 synonyms and 34 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for dawning along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for dawning

  • actualizing
  • appearing
  • arising
  • arriving
  • aurora
  • beginning
  • being
  • breaking
  • breathing
  • coalescing
  • cockcrow
  • cohering
  • coming on
  • commencing
  • continuing
  • crack of dawn
  • dawn
  • day
  • daybreak
  • daylight
  • daytime
  • emerging
  • enduring
  • engendering
  • existing
  • forenoon
  • forming
  • lasting
  • light
  • living
  • materializing
  • morn
  • morning
  • originating
  • persisting
  • setting in
  • springing
  • starting
  • subsisting
  • sun
  • sunrise
  • sunup
  • surviving

Antonyms for dawning

  • afternoon
  • ceasing
  • concluding
  • dark
  • darkness
  • departing
  • desisting
  • disappearing
  • discontinuing
  • dissolving
  • dusk
  • dying
  • ending
  • evaporating
  • evening
  • eventide
  • expiring
  • finishing
  • gloaming
  • halting
  • midday
  • midnight
  • night
  • nightfall
  • nighttime
  • passing away
  • perishing
  • quitting
  • stopping
  • sundown
  • sunset
  • terminating
  • twilight
  • vanishing

Meanings of dawning

  • verb
    1. To begin to brighten with daylight.
    2. To start to appear or be realized.
    3. To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
  • noun
    1. Dawn.
    2. The first beginnings of something.

Example Sentences

  • With the first light of morning dawning, the city began to stir from its slumber.
  • The dawning realization of the enormity of the task ahead filled them with both excitement and trepidation.
  • As she climbed higher, the dawning beauty of the landscape took her breath away.
  • The dawning of a new era brought hope for positive change to the war-torn region.
  • At the dawning of the digital age, society underwent profound transformations in communication and technology.

On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to dawning, such as: actualizing, afternoon, appearing, arising, arriving, aurora, beginning.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

kickoff

  • adopt
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  • buy the farm
  • check out
  • childhood
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  • kick in
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  • morning
  • nascence
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  • onset
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  • threshold
  • well
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daybreak

  • aurora
  • break of day
  • bright
  • cockcrow
  • crack of dawn
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day
  • day-peep
  • daylight
  • dayspring
  • daytime
  • early bright
  • first light
  • forenoon
  • light
  • morn
  • morning
  • sun
  • sunrise
  • sunup

daylight

  • afternoon
  • aurora
  • clearheadedness
  • cockcrow
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day
  • daybreak
  • daytime
  • during the day
  • dusk
  • eve
  • evening
  • forenoon
  • gloaming
  • head
  • health
  • healthfulness
  • healthiness
  • light
  • light of day
  • lucidity
  • lucidness
  • marbles
  • mind
  • morn
  • morning
  • nightfall
  • noon
  • normalcy
  • normality
  • rationality
  • reason
  • reasonableness
  • saneness
  • sanity
  • sense
  • soundness
  • sun
  • sundown
  • sunlight
  • sunrise
  • sunset
  • sunshine
  • sunup
  • twilight
  • wholesomeness
  • wisdom

day

  • afternoon
  • age
  • ascendancy
  • astronomical day
  • aurora
  • bit
  • bright
  • cockcrow
  • cycle
  • date
  • dawn
  • dawn-to-dark
  • dawning
  • daybreak
  • daylight
  • daytime
  • diurnal course
  • dusk
  • early bright
  • epoch
  • era
  • eve
  • evening
  • forenoon
  • generation
  • gloaming
  • height
  • heyday
  • light
  • light of day
  • mean solar day
  • morn
  • morning
  • nautical day
  • nightfall
  • noon
  • period
  • prime
  • sidereal day
  • space
  • span
  • spell
  • stretch
  • sun
  • sundown
  • sunlight
  • sunrise
  • sunrise-to-sunset
  • sunset
  • sunshine
  • sunup
  • term
  • time
  • twilight
  • vintage
  • while
  • working day
  • year
  • years
  • zenith

launch

  • adopt
  • advent
  • alpha
  • appearance
  • arrange
  • arrival
  • ascent
  • author
  • barrage
  • baseline
  • begin
  • beginning
  • birth
  • blast off
  • blastoff
  • bombard
  • bow
  • bowl
  • break the ice
  • break the seal
  • buck
  • bung
  • cast
  • catapult
  • childhood
  • chuck
  • commence
  • commencement
  • conceive
  • concoct
  • constitute
  • construct
  • contrive
  • cradle
  • create
  • creation
  • dart
  • dash
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day one
  • debut
  • develop
  • devise
  • discharge
  • dispatch
  • drawing board
  • drive
  • eject
  • embark upon
  • embrace
  • emergence
  • endow
  • enlarge
  • establish
  • expand
  • fabricate
  • father
  • finance
  • fire
  • first base
  • fling
  • flip
  • found
  • founding
  • fountain
  • fountainhead
  • fund
  • generate
  • genesis
  • germ
  • get going
  • get off
  • get show on road
  • get to
  • get-go
  • git-go
  • ground zero
  • gun
  • heave
  • hook
  • hurl
  • hurtle
  • impel
  • inaugurate
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • incipience
  • incipiency
  • infancy
  • initiate
  • initiation
  • innovate
  • instigate
  • institute
  • institution
  • introduce
  • invent
  • jump
  • kick off
  • kickoff
  • lance
  • lead off
  • let fly
  • lift off
  • liftoff
  • lob
  • loft
  • make up
  • manufacture
  • morning
  • nascence
  • nascency
  • onset
  • open
  • opening
  • organize
  • origin
  • originate
  • origination
  • outset
  • pass
  • peg
  • pelt
  • pioneer
  • pitch
  • plant
  • precipitate
  • produce
  • project
  • propel
  • put up
  • refound
  • reinitiate
  • reinstitute
  • relaunch
  • rifle
  • roll
  • root
  • seedbed
  • send forth
  • set about
  • set afloat
  • set going
  • set in motion
  • set up
  • shoot
  • sling
  • source
  • spawn
  • spring
  • square one
  • start
  • start ball rolling
  • subsidize
  • systematize
  • systemize
  • take on
  • take up
  • takeoff
  • threshold
  • throw
  • thrust
  • toss
  • usher in
  • well
  • wellspring
  • youth

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