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

half-light

  • afterglow
  • afterlight
  • aurora
  • black
  • blackness
  • blackout
  • break of day
  • brownout
  • candlelight
  • cloudiness
  • cocklight
  • crack of dawn
  • crepuscular light
  • dark
  • darkness
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • dawnlight
  • day-peep
  • daylight
  • decline
  • dimness
  • dimout
  • dullness
  • dulness
  • dusk
  • early evening
  • ebb
  • end
  • evening
  • eventide
  • faintness
  • first flush of morning
  • fogginess
  • gloaming
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • glow
  • grayness
  • haziness
  • last phase
  • late afternoon
  • midnight
  • mistiness
  • morning
  • murk
  • murkiness
  • night
  • nightfall
  • paleness
  • peep of day
  • semidarkness
  • shade
  • shadiness
  • shadows
  • somberness
  • sundown
  • sunrise
  • sunset
  • sunup
  • twilight
  • umbra
  • umbrage

nascence

  • advent
  • alpha
  • appearance
  • arrival
  • baseline
  • beginning
  • birth
  • childhood
  • commencement
  • cradle
  • creation
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day one
  • debut
  • drawing board
  • emergence
  • first base
  • founding
  • fountain
  • fountainhead
  • genesis
  • germ
  • get-go
  • git-go
  • ground zero
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • incipience
  • incipiency
  • infancy
  • initiation
  • institution
  • kickoff
  • launch
  • morning
  • nascency
  • onset
  • opening
  • origin
  • origination
  • outset
  • rise
  • root
  • seedbed
  • source
  • spring
  • square one
  • start
  • threshold
  • well
  • wellspring
  • youth

nascency

  • advent
  • alpha
  • appearance
  • arrival
  • baseline
  • beginning
  • birth
  • childhood
  • commencement
  • cradle
  • creation
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day one
  • debut
  • drawing board
  • emergence
  • first base
  • founding
  • fountain
  • fountainhead
  • genesis
  • germ
  • get-go
  • git-go
  • ground zero
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • incipience
  • incipiency
  • infancy
  • initiation
  • institution
  • kickoff
  • launch
  • morning
  • nascence
  • onset
  • opening
  • origin
  • origination
  • outset
  • rise
  • root
  • seedbed
  • source
  • spring
  • square one
  • start
  • threshold
  • well
  • wellspring
  • youth

nativity

  • Christmastide
  • Christmastime
  • Noel
  • Yule
  • Yuletide
  • accouchement
  • act of God
  • alpha
  • babyhood
  • bearing
  • bearing children
  • begetting
  • beginning
  • birth
  • birthing
  • birthplace
  • blast off
  • blessed event
  • breeding
  • childbearing
  • childbed
  • childbirth
  • commencement
  • conception
  • confinement
  • constitution
  • creation
  • dawn
  • dawning
  • day one
  • delivering
  • delivery
  • early stage
  • embarkation
  • emergence
  • entrance
  • entry
  • establishment
  • fatherhood
  • fathering
  • festive season
  • forging
  • formation
  • formulation
  • foundation
  • fount
  • fountain
  • fountainhead
  • generation
  • genesis
  • geniture
  • git go
  • imagination
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • infancy
  • ingress
  • initiation
  • institution
  • introduction
  • labor
  • launch
  • laying down
  • lying-in
  • making
  • maternity
  • motherhood
  • mothering
  • nascency
  • natality
  • nursery
  • opener
  • origin
  • origination
  • outbreak
  • outset
  • parenthood
  • parenting
  • parturience
  • parturition
  • paternity
  • procreation
  • producing
  • production
  • propagation
  • reproduction
  • rise
  • setting up
  • siring
  • source
  • spawning
  • spring
  • square one
  • start
  • starting point
  • travail
  • ultimate cause
  • visit from stork
  • visit from the stork
  • wellspring

dawn

  • actualize
  • advent
  • alpha
  • appear
  • appearance
  • arise
  • arrival
  • arrive
  • aurora
  • baseline
  • be
  • begin
  • beginning
  • birth
  • break
  • break of day
  • breathe
  • bright
  • childhood
  • coalesce
  • cockcrow
  • cohere
  • come on
  • commence
  • commencement
  • continue
  • crack of dawn
  • cradle
  • creation
  • dawning
  • day
  • day one
  • day-peep
  • daybreak
  • daylight
  • daytime
  • debut
  • develop
  • drawing board
  • early bright
  • emerge
  • emergence
  • endure
  • engender
  • exist
  • first base
  • first blush
  • first light
  • forenoon
  • form
  • foundation
  • founding
  • fountain
  • fountainhead
  • genesis
  • germ
  • get-go
  • git-go
  • glimmer
  • ground zero
  • head
  • inauguration
  • inception
  • incipience
  • incipiency
  • infancy
  • initiate
  • initiation
  • institution
  • kickoff
  • last
  • launch
  • light
  • lighten
  • live
  • loom
  • materialize
  • morn
  • morning
  • nascence
  • nascency
  • onset
  • open
  • opening
  • origin
  • originate
  • origination
  • outset
  • outstart
  • persist
  • rise
  • root
  • seedbed
  • set in
  • show itself
  • source
  • spring
  • square one
  • start
  • subsist
  • sun
  • sunrise
  • sunup
  • survive
  • threshold
  • unfold
  • unfolding
  • wee hours
  • well
  • wellspring
  • youth

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