light

Main Entry:
light [lahyt]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: illuminated
Synonyms: ablaze, aglow, bright, brilliant, burnished, clear, cloudless, flashing, fluorescent, glossy, glowing, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rich, scintillant, shining, shiny, sunny, unclouded, unobscured, vivid, well-lighted, well-lit
Antonyms: black, dark, darkened, dim, gloomy, obscure
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: light
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: small in amount, content
Synonyms: casual, digestible, faint, fractional, fragmentary, frivolous, frugal, gentle, hardly any, hardly enough, inadequate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indistinct, insignificant, insufficient, mild, minor, minuscule, minute, moderate, modest, not many, not much, not rich, puny, restricted, scanty, shoestring, slight, soft, sparse, superficial, thin, tiny, trifling, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial, weak, wee
Antonyms: heavy
Main Entry: light
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: simple, easy
Synonyms: effortless, facile, manageable, moderate, smooth, undemanding, unexacting, untaxing, untroublesome
Antonyms: difficult, heavy, laborious
Main Entry: light
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: funny, cheery
Synonyms: airy, amusing, animated, blithe, carefree, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, diverting, dizzy, entertaining, fickle, flighty, frivolous, gay, giddy, high, humorous, lighthearted, lively, merry, perky, pleasing, sunny, sunny-side up, superficial, trifling, trivial, up, upbeat, witty
Antonyms: grave, serious, solemn
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
Main Entry: light
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: context, point of view; understanding
Synonyms: angle, approach, aspect, attitude, awareness, comprehension, condition, education, elucidation, enlightenment, example, exemplar, explanation, illustration, information, insight, interpretation, knowledge, model, paragon, slant, standing, vantage point, viewpoint
Antonyms: misconception, misunderstanding
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: 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
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