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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | illuminate |
| Synonyms: | brighten, light, lighten |
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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | illuminate |
| Synonyms: | animate, brighten, cast, fire, flood, floodlight, furnish with light, highlight, ignite, illume, illumine, inflame, irradiate, kindle, light up, lighten, limelight, make bright, make visible, put on, shine, spot, spotlight, switch on, turn on |
| Antonyms: | darken, dull, obscure |
| Main Entry: | lighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | illuminate |
| Synonyms: | become light, brighten, flash, gleam, illume, irradiate, light, light up, make bright, shine |
| Antonyms: | blacken, darken, dim, dull |
| Main Entry: | nurse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care for, tend |
| Synonyms: | advance, aid, attend, baby-sit, cherish, cradle, cultivate, encourage, father, feed, forward, foster, further, harbor, humor, immunize, indulge, inoculate, irradiate, keep alive, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, medicate, minister to, mother, nourish, nurture, pamper, preserve, promote, see to, serve, sit, succor, support, take care of, take charge of, treat, vaccinate, wait on, watch out for, watch over |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | radiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give off; scatter |
| Synonyms: | afford, beam, branch out, broadcast, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, diverge, emanate, emit, expand, give out, gleam, glitter, illumine, irradiate, issue, light up, pour, proliferate, propagate, ramble, ramify, send out, shed, shine, shoot out, spread, spread out, sprinkle, strew, throw out, transmit, yield |
| Antonyms: | collect, gather |
| Main Entry: | shine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give off or reflect light |
| Synonyms: | beam, bedazzle, blaze, blink, burn, dazzle, deflect, emit light, flare, flash, flicker, give light, glare, gleam, glimmer, glisten, glitter, glow, illuminate, illumine, incandesce, irradiate, luminesce, mirror, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle |
| Antonyms: | dull |
| Main Entry: | illumine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | light up |
| Synonyms: | brighten, illuminate, irradiate, light |
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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
ablaze, actinic, anacamptic, beaming, beamy, blazing, bright, bright as day, bright as noonday, bright as silver, bright as the sun at noonday, burnished, circumfulgent, clear, cloudless, effulgent, epipolic, flimmering, fluorescent, fulgent, fulgid, fulgurant, fulgurous, gairish, garish, glassy, glossy, guttering, heliographic, in a blaze, incandescent, inenubilable, interlucent, irradiated, lambent, light, light as day, light as noonday, light as the sun at noonday, lightsome, lucent, lucid, luciferous, lucific, luculent, luminiferous, luminous, lustrous, meridian, meteoric, nitid, noonday, noontide, orient, phosphorescent, photic, photoelastic, photogenic, photographic, plenilunar, radiant, refractive, refulgent, resplendent, rutilant, scintillant, self, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, splendid, stroboscopic, sunny, transplendent, unclouded, unobscured, vivid
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| Concept: | Light. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; light in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil; sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora., day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; sun (luminary) light; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday., glow; glimmering; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame., flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola., spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling; emication, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration; flame (fire); lightning, levin, ignis fatuus, (luminary) [more]., luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion, reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor, fulgidity; dazzlement, resplendence, transplendency; luminousness; luminosity; lucidity; renitency, nitency; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination., actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, X-ray; photography, heliography; photometer., [Science of light] optics; photology, photometry; dioptrics, catoptrics., [Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality., reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.
-verbs
shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare, flare up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate, coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright; reflect light, daze, dazzle, bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate., clear up, brighten., lighten, enlighten; levin; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon; give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in, throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon; illume, illumine, illuminate; relume, strike a light; kindle (set fire to).
-adjectives
shining; luminous, luminiferous; lucid, lucent, luculent, lucific, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent, nitid, lustrous, shiny, beamy, scintillant, radiant, lambent; sheen, sheeny; glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday, tide; cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured., gairish, garish; resplendent, transplendent; refulgent, effulgent; fulgid, fulgent; relucent, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant, meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow. bright as silver; light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday., actinic; photogenic, photographic; heliographic; heliophagous.
-phrases
"a day for gods to stoop and men to soar" [Tennyson]; "dark with excessive bright" [Milton].
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| Antonyms: | darkness |
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