Main Entry:
sun
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: brightest star
Synonyms: aubade, bask, daylight, flare, shine, sol, sol, star, sunlight, sunrise, tan
Main Entry: heat
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make or become hot
Synonyms: bake, bask, blaze, boil, broil, calorify, chafe, char, enflame, enkindle, fire, flame, flush, frizzle, fry, glow, grill, grow hot, grow warm, ignite, incandesce, incinerate, inflame, kindle, melt, oxidate, oxidize, perspire, raise the temperature, reheat, roast, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, set on fire, singe, smelt, steam, sun, swelter, tepefy, thaw, toast, warm, warm up
Antonyms: cool, freeze
Main Entry: light
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: luminescence from sun or other source
Synonyms: aurora, beacon, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, bulb, candle, coruscation, dawn, daybreak, daylight, daytime, effulgence, emanation, flare, flash, fulgor, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, irradiation, lambency, lamp, lantern, lighthouse, luminosity, luster, morn, morning, phosphorescence, radiance, radiation, ray, refulgence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, star, sun, sunbeam, sunrise, sunshine, taper, torch, window
Antonyms: dark, darkness, night, obscurity
Example Sentences
  • Most extrasolar planets have been revealed by observing their host star, or sun.
  • As the sun emerges from a long lull in activity, the star's emissions in the radio band of the spectrum have also picked up.
  • Smaller seminars may meet outside when the sun is shining.
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Related Words
Main Entry: heat
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
combustible, ablaze, adiaphoretic, afire, alight, anhidrotic, ardent, baking, blazing, blood-hot, blood-warm, buldering, burning-hot, burnt, calefacient, calorific, candent, canicular, close, coctile, deflagrable, diaphoretic, diathermal, diathermanous, ebullient, estiferous, estival, euthermic, fervent, fervid, fiery, genial, glowing, heated, heating, hidrotic, hot, hot as fire, hot as pepper, hot enough to roast an ox, igneous, ignescent, in a blaze, in a fever, in a glow, in a heat, in a perspiration, in a sweat, in flames, incalescent, incandescent, inflamed, inflammable, isotheral, isothermal, isothermic, kindling, like a furnace, like an oven, lukewarm, mild, molten, on fire, oppressive, piping-hot, plutonic, pyretic, red-hot, reeking, scumfished, semiustulate, smoking, smoking-hot, smoldering, sodden, stifling, stuffy, sudoriferous, sudorific, suffocating, sultry, sunny, sweltered, sweltering, sweltry, swullocking, tepid, thalpotic, thermal, thermic, torrid, tropical, unextinguished, unfrozen, unquenched, ustulated, volcanic, warm, warm as toast, warm as wool, white-hot
Main Entry: light
Part of Speech: adjective, noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
light, self, 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 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, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendent, splendid, stroboscopic, sunny, transplendent, unclouded, unobscured, vivid
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Heat.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat
Synonyms:
-nouns
heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity; incalescence, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic., phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy; recalescence., summer, dog days; canicular days; baking heat, white heat, tropical heat, African heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, blood heat; sirocco, simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming., sun (luminary)., [Science of heat] pyrology; thermology, thermotics; thermometer.
-verbs
be hot; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, broil, blaze, flame; smolder; parch, fume, pant., heat (make hot); recalesce; thaw, give.
-adjectives
hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal, thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow., sunny, torrid, tropical, estival, canicular; close, sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking; baking., red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning hot, piping hot; like a furnace, like an oven; hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to roast an ox., fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling; in flames, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool., volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal, isothermic, isotheral.
-phrases
not a breath of air; "whirlwinds of tempestuous fire" [Paradise Lost].
Antonyms: cold
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Concept Thesaurus
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].
Antonyms: darkness
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