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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illuminated |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, bright, brilliant, clear, cloudless, glossy, glowing, lambent, luminous, lustrous, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rich, shining, shiny, sunny, vivid, aglow, burnished, flashing, fluorescent, lucent, phosphorescent, scintillant, unclouded, unobscured, well-lighted, well-lit |
| Antonyms: | black, dark, dim, gloomy, obscure, darkened |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luminescence from sun or other source |
| Synonyms: | aurora, beacon, blaze, brightness, bulb, candle, dawn, daybreak, daylight, effulgence, emanation, flare, flash, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, illumination, lamp, lantern, luminosity, luster, morning, radiance, radiation, ray, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, star, sun, sunrise, taper, torch, window, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, daytime, fulgor, incandescence, irradiation, lambency, lighthouse, morn, phosphorescence, refulgence, scintillation, sunbeam, sunshine |
| Antonyms: | dark, darkness, night, obscurity |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | illuminate |
| Synonyms: | animate, brighten, cast, fire, flood, highlight, ignite, illumine, inflame, irradiate, kindle, lighten, limelight, put on, shine, spot, spotlight, turn on, floodlight, furnish with light, illume, light up, make bright, make visible, switch on |
| Antonyms: | darken, dull, obscure |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blond, fair |
| Synonyms: | faded, pale, pastel, bleached, fair-skinned, light-hued, light-skinned, light-toned, tow-headed |
| Antonyms: | brunette, dark, dusky |
| 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: | start on fire |
| Synonyms: | burn, fire, flame, ignite, inflame, kindle, spark, enkindle, set fire to, set on fire, strike a match |
| Antonyms: | drench, extinguish, put out, quench |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not heavy |
| Synonyms: | agile, airy, atmospheric, buoyant, crumbly, dainty, delicate, downy, easy, effervescent, ethereal, feathery, filmy, flimsy, floating, fluffy, friable, frothy, graceful, inconsequential, insubstantial, lightweight, lithe, little, loose, meager, nimble, petty, porous, portable, sandy, sheer, slender, slight, small, spongy, sprightly, thin, trifling, trivial, unsubstantial, featherweight, floatable, gossamery, imponderous, light-footed, sylphlike, tissuelike, unheavy, weightless |
| Antonyms: | heavy, weighted |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | step down; land |
| Synonyms: | alight, arrive, come down, disembark, drop, get down, perch, rest, roost, settle, sit, stop, deplane, detrain, fly down, set down, settle down, sit down, touch down |
| Antonyms: | mount |
| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | small in amount, content |
| Synonyms: | casual, digestible, faint, fractional, fragmentary, frivolous, frugal, gentle, inadequate, inconsequential, indistinct, insignificant, insufficient, mild, minor, minuscule, minute, moderate, modest, puny, restricted, scanty, slight, soft, sparse, superficial, thin, tiny, trifling, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial, weak, wee, hardly any, hardly enough, inconsiderable, not many, not much, not rich, shoestring* |
| Antonyms: | heavy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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*, dizzy, entertaining, fickle, flighty, frivolous, gay, giddy, high, humorous, lighthearted, lively, merry, perky, pleasing, sunny, superficial, trifling, trivial, up, upbeat, witty, chirpy, diverting, sunny-side up |
| Antonyms: | grave, serious, solemn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | light |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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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
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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) [more] 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) [more]; 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 [more]., [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) [more].
-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 |
| Main Entry: | alight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | land |
| Synonyms: | come down, descend, disembark, dismount, get off, light, perch, settle, debark, touch down |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn brightly |
| Synonyms: | beam, coruscate, explode, fire, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, glow, illuminate, illumine, jet, light, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, burst out, fulgurate, incandesce |
| Main Entry: | blond/blonde |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having light-colored hair |
| Synonyms: | champagne, fair, light, pale, pearly, sallow, snowy, straw, washed-out, albino, auricomous, bleached, fair-haired, flaxen, golden-haired, platinum, sandy-haired, strawberry, towheaded, yellow-haired |
| Antonyms: | brunette, brunet |
| Main Entry: | bump into |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen upon |
| Synonyms: | come across, encounter, hit, light, luck, meet, stumble, tumble, chance upon, light upon, meet up with, run across, run into |
| Main Entry: | comic/comical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amusing |
| Synonyms: | Mickey Mouse, absurd, batty, boffo, camp*, comical, crazy, dippy, diverting, dizzy, droll, entertaining, facetious, farcical, flaky*, fool, foolheaded, for grins, freaky, funny, gelastic, goofus, goofy, gump, horse's tail, humorous, ironic, jerky, jocular, joking, joshing, laughable, light, loony, ludicrous, nutty, off the wall, priceless, ridiculous, risible, schtick, screwy, side-splitting, silly, wacky, waggish, whimsical, witty |
| Antonyms: | sad, serious, sober, solemn, tragic, unfunny |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | daylight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | light part of 24 hours |
| Synonyms: | aurora, dawn, day, daybreak, light, sunrise, daytime, during the day, light of day, sunlight, sunshine |
| Antonyms: | darkness, evening, night, sunset |
| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, defect |
| Synonyms: | abscond, bail out*, beach, betray, bolt, check out*, chuck, cop out*, decamp, depart, duck*, escape, flee, fly, forsake, go, jilt, leave, leave in the lurch, light, maroon, opt out, pull out, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, split*, strand, take off, tergiversate, throw over, vacate, walk, apostatize, crawl out, give up, go AWOL, go back on, go over the hill, go west, leave high and dry, leave stranded, play truant, run out on, sneak off, take a hike, violate oath |
| Notes: | that impoverished stretch of sand called a desert can only afford one 's'; that rich gooey extra thing at the end of the meal called a dessert indulges in two of them |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, come back, help, stay, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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