Thesaurus:early morning

Thesaurus

early morning

English

Noun

Sense: the time between midnight and sunrise

Synonyms

• dark thirty (US, military, idiomatic)
• oh dark hundred, 0-dark-hundred (US, military, idiomatic)
• oh dark thirty, oh-dark-thirty (US, military, idiomatic)
• prime (obsolete)
• stupid o'clock (humorous)
• zero dark thirty, 0-dark-thirty (US, military, idiomatic)

Antonyms

• afternoon    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• morning    [⇒ thesaurus]
• nighttime    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• day    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

• predawn
• small hours
• wee hour
• wee hours
• wee small hour
• wee small hours
• witching hour

Comeronyms

• dawn    [⇒ thesaurus]
• first light
• postdawn
• morning    [⇒ thesaurus]
• midday    [⇒ thesaurus]
• afternoon    [⇒ thesaurus]
• evening    [⇒ thesaurus]
• dusk    [⇒ thesaurus]
• night
• midnight    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• dawn chorus
• graveyard shift
• graveyard watch (nautical)
• postmidnight

Further reading

• “125. morning” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “early morning” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.