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| 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: | buoyant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | light in weight |
| Synonyms: | afloat, airy, bouncy, floatable, floating, resilient, supernatant, unsinkable, weightless |
| Antonyms: | heavy, weighted |
| 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: | lightweight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inconsequential |
| Synonyms: | failing, featherweight, foolish, imponderous, incompetent, insignificant, of no account, paltry, petty, slight, trifling, trivial, unimportant, weightless, worthless |
| Antonyms: | big, consequential, heavyweight, important, major |
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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 |
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-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.
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| Antonyms: | darkness |
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