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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illuminated |
| Synonyms: | afire, bright, brilliant, burning, lighted, radiant, resplendent, shining |
| Notes: | lighted and lit are equally correct as both past tense and past participial forms, though lighted is more usual and preferred as an adjective |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | start on fire |
| Synonyms: | burn, enkindle, fire, flame, ignite, inflame, kindle, set fire to, set on fire, spark, strike a match |
| Antonyms: | drench, extinguish, put out, quench |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | step down; land |
| Synonyms: | alight, arrive, come down, deplane, detrain, disembark, drop, fly down, get down, perch, rest, roost, set down, settle, settle down, sit, sit down, stop, touch down |
| Antonyms: | mount |
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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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| Main Entry: | drunk |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intoxicated by alcohol |
| Synonyms: | bashed, befuddled, boozed up, buzzed, crocked, feeling no pain, flushed, flying*, fuddled, glazed, groggy, high*, inebriated, juiced, laced, liquored up, lit, lush, muddled, plastered, potted, seeing double, sloshed, stewed, stoned, tanked, three sheets to the wind, tight*, tipsy, totaled, under the influence, under the table, wasted* |
| Notes: | as an adjective, drunken can only precede the noun, while drunk follows a verb |
| Antonyms: | sober, straight |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | literature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | written matter, both fictional and nonfictional |
| Synonyms: | abstract, article, belles-lettres, biography, books, brochure, classics, comment, composition, critique, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, drama, essay, exposition, findings, history, humanities, information, leaflet, letters, lit, literary works, lore, novel, observation, pamphlet, paper, poetry, prose, précis, report, research, story, summary, theme, thesis, tract, treatise, treatment, writings, written work |
| Antonyms: | speech |
| Main Entry: | luminous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright, glowing |
| Synonyms: | beaming, brilliant, clear, crystal, effulgent, fulgent, illuminated, incandescent, lambent, lighted, lit, lucent, lucid, luminescent, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, translucent, transparent, vivid |
| Antonyms: | dark, dim, dull, gloomy |
| Main Entry: | plastered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drunk |
| Synonyms: | bashed, blitzed, bombed, boozed up, buzzed, crocked, dead drunk, dead to the world, drinking, drunk as a skunk, drunken, feeling good, feeling no pain, flushed, flying*, fried, gone*, groggy, half in the bag, half-crocked, high*, hooched up, inebriated, juiced, liquored up, lit, loaded, pissed, polluted, potted, sauced, schnockered, seeing double, sloshed, stewed, stoned, tanked, three sheets to the wind, tipsy, totaled, under the influence, under the table, wasted*, woozy, zonked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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