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gossamery
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dainty, weak |
| Synonyms: | aerial, balmy, breakable, choice, delectable, delicious, delightful, elegant, ethereal, exquisite, faint, filmy, fine, fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gentle, gossamery, graceful, hairline, mild, muted, nice, pale, pastel, rare, recherché, select, shatterable, shattery, slight, soft, subdued, subtle, superior, tender |
| Antonyms: | coarse, harsh, heavy, indelicate, inelegant, robust, rough, strong |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not heavy |
| Synonyms: | agile, airy, atmospheric, buoyant, crumbly, dainty, delicate, downy, easy, effervescent, ethereal, featherweight, feathery, filmy, flimsy, floatable, floating, fluffy, friable, frothy, gossamery, graceful, imponderous, inconsequential, insubstantial, light-footed, lightweight, lithe, little, loose, meager, nimble, petty, porous, portable, sandy, sheer, slender, slight, small, spongy, sprightly, sylphlike, thin, tissuelike, trifling, trivial, unheavy, unsubstantial, weightless |
| Antonyms: | heavy, weighted |
| Main Entry: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, flimsy, gone, gossamery, groundless, hallucinatory, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, imponderable, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void, passed away, passed on, perished, shadowy, tenuous, ungrounded, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existent, existing, real, true |
| Main Entry: | pulverous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine |
| Synonyms: | diaphanous, dusty, ethereal, exquisite, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spun, flimsy, fragile, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, granular, impalpable, light, lightweight, little, loose, minute, porous, powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverulent, quality, slender, small, thin, threadlike, transparent |
| Main Entry: | pulverulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fine |
| Synonyms: | diaphanous, dusty, ethereal, exquisite, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spun, flimsy, fragile, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, granular, impalpable, light, lightweight, little, loose, minute, porous, powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverous, quality, slender, small, thin, threadlike, transparent |
| Main Entry: | vapory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | filmy |
| Synonyms: | aerial, aery, airy, bleary, blurred, cloudy, diaphanous, dim, ethereal, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, hazy, membranous, milky, misty, opalescent, opaque, pearly, sheer, transparent, vaporous |
| Main Entry: | weightless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light |
| Synonyms: | agile, airy, atmospheric, buoyant, crumbly, dainty, delicate, downy, easy, effervescent, ethereal, featherweight, feathery, filmy, flimsy, floatable, floating*, fluffy, friable, frothy, gossamery, graceful, imponderous, inconsequential, insubstantial, light as a feather, light-footed, lightweight, lithe, little, loose*, meager, nimble, petty, porous, portable, sandy, sheer, slender, slight, small, spongy, sprightly, sylphlike, thin*, tissuelike, trifling, trivial, unheavy, unsubstantial |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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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 |
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-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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