Adjective sunset has 2 senses
- sunset - of a declining industry or technology; "sunset industries"
Antonym: new (indirect, via old)
- sunset - providing for termination; "a program with a sunset provision"
Antonym: intermediate (indirect, via first, last)
Antonym: first (indirect, via last, intermediate)
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Noun sunset has 3 senses
- sunset, sundown - the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon
--1 is a kind of hour, time of day
--1 is a part of evening, eve, eventide
Antonyms: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow
- sunset - atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun
--2 is a kind of atmospheric phenomenon
- sunset - the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon
--3 is a kind of periodic event, recurrent event
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