lights [lahyts]
Main Entry:
light [lahyt]
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: 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
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
Related Words
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: 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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Main Entry: alight
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: land
Synonyms: come down, debark, descend, disembark, dismount, get off, light, perch, settle, touch down
Main Entry: blaze
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: burn brightly
Synonyms: beam, burst out, coruscate, explode, fire, flame, flare, flash, flicker, fulgurate, glare, gleam, glow, illuminate, illumine, incandesce, jet, light, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle
Main Entry: bump into
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: happen upon
Synonyms: chance upon, come across, encounter, hit, light, light upon, luck, meet, meet up with, run across, run into, stumble, tumble
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