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| Sounds | lay't |
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| Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | Of comparatively little physical weight or density. |
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| Examples | "a light load"; "magnesium is a light metal--having a specific gravity of 1.74 at 20 degrees C" |
| Attribute of | weight |
| Similar | airy; buoyant, floaty; feathery, featherlike; featherweight; lighter-than-air; lightweight; low-density |
| Contrary | heavy |
| Adverbs | lightly |
| Meaning | (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent. |
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| Examples | "light blue"; "light colors such as pastels"; "a light-colored powder" |
| Synonyms | light-colored |
| Attribute of | value |
| Similar | pale; palish; pastel; powdery |
| See also | white, achromatic |
| Contrary | dark |
| Meaning | Of the military or industry. Using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment. |
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| Examples | "light infantry"; "light cavalry"; "light industry"; "light weapons" |
| Similar | light-armed, lightly-armed |
| Contrary | heavy |
| Meaning | Not great in degree or quantity or number. |
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| Examples | "a light sentence"; "a light accent"; "casualties were light"; "light snow was falling"; "light misty rain"; "light smoke from the chimney" |
| Similar | easy |
| Contrary | heavy |
| Adverbs | lightly |
| Meaning | Psychologically light. Especially free from sadness or troubles. |
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| Examples | "a light heart" |
| Similar | fooling, casual |
| Contrary | heavy |
| Adverbs | lightly; lightly |
| Meaning | Characterized by or emitting light. |
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| Examples | "a room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light" |
| Attribute of | light, lightness |
| Similar | ablaze, inflamed, reddened; bioluminescent; bright; candescent; floodlit, floodlighted; fluorescent; illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted; illuminating; incandescent, candent; lamplit; lighting-up; livid; luminescent; phosphorescent; sunlit, sunstruck; white |
| Contrary | dark |
| Meaning | Used of vowels or syllables. Pronounced with little or no stress. |
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| Examples | "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable" |
| Synonyms | unaccented, weak |
| Similar to | unstressed, unaccented |
| Meaning | Easily assimilated in the alimentary canal. Not rich or heavily seasoned. |
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| Examples | "a light diet" |
| Similar to | digestible |
| Meaning | (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency. |
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| Examples | "light sandy soil" |
| Synonyms | friable, sandy |
| Similar to | loose |
| Meaning | (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims. |
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| Examples | "a light lilting voice like a silver bell" |
| Synonyms | clean, clear, unclouded |
| Similar to | pure |
| Meaning | Moving easily and quickly. Nimble. |
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| Examples | "the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step" |
| Synonyms | lightsome, tripping |
| Similar to | light-footed |
| Meaning | Demanding little effort. Not burdensome. |
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| Examples | "light housework"; "light exercise" |
| Similar to | undemanding |
| Meaning | Of little intensity or power or force. |
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| Examples | "the light touch of her fingers"; "a light breeze" |
| Similar | easy, gentle, soft |
| Contrary | heavy |
| Meaning | (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average. |
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| Examples | "light water is ordinary water" |
| Category | chemistry, chemical science |
| Contrary | heavy |
| Meaning | Weak and likely to lose consciousness. |
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| Examples | "felt light in the head"; "light-headed with wine"; "light-headed from lack of sleep" |
| Synonyms | faint, swooning, light-headed, lightheaded |
| Similar to | ill, sick |
| Meaning | Very thin and insubstantial. |
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| Examples | "light summer dresses" |
| Synonyms | flimsy |
| Similar to | thin |
| Meaning | Marked by temperance in indulgence. |
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| Examples | "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper" |
| Synonyms | abstemious |
| Similar to | temperate |
| Adverbs | lightly |
| Meaning | Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so. |
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| Examples | "a light pound" |
| Synonyms | scant, short |
| Similar to | insufficient, deficient |
| Meaning | Having little importance. |
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| Examples | "losing his job was no light matter" |
| Similar to | insignificant, unimportant |
| Meaning | Intended primarily as entertainment. Not serious or profound. |
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| Examples | "light verse"; "a light comedy" |
| Similar to | frivolous |
| Meaning | Silly or trivial. |
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| Examples | "light banter"; "light idle chatter" |
| Synonyms | idle |
| Similar to | frivolous |
| Meaning | Having a spongy or flaky texture. Well-leavened. |
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| Examples | "light pastries" |
| Similar to | leavened |
| Meaning | Designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight. |
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| Examples | "light aircraft"; "a light truck" |
| Similar to | light-duty |
| Meaning | Having relatively few calories. |
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| Examples | "light (or lite) beer"; "lite (or light) mayonnaise" |
| Synonyms | lite, low-cal |
| Similar to | nonfat, fat-free, fatless |
| Meaning | (of sleep) easily disturbed. |
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| Examples | "in a light doze"; "a light sleeper" |
| Synonyms | wakeful |
| Similar to | shallow |
| Meaning | Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior. |
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| Examples | "he was told to avoid loose (or light) women" |
| Synonyms | easy, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| Similar to | unchaste |
| Meaning | (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation. |
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| Examples | "the light was filtered through a soft glass window" |
| Synonyms | visible light, visible radiation |
| Category | physics, physical science, natural philosophy |
| Part of | electromagnetic spectrum |
| Narrower | beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation; candlelight, candle flame; corona; counterglow, gegenschein; daylight; firelight; fluorescence; friar's lantern, ignis fatuus, jack-o'-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp; gaslight; radiance, glow, glowing; glow; half-light; incandescence, glow; lamplight; luminescence; meteor, shooting star; moonlight, moonshine, moon; starlight; sunlight, sunshine, sun; scintillation; streamer; torchlight; twilight |
| Broader | actinic radiation, actinic ray |
| Adjectives | photic |
| Verbs | light |
| Meaning | Any device serving as a source of illumination. |
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| Examples | "he stopped the car and turned off the lights" |
| Synonyms | light source |
| Narrower | anchor light, riding light, riding lamp; blinker, flasher; fairy light; flood, floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood; headlight, headlamp; houselights; jacklight; navigation light; night-light; panel light; room light; searchlight; sidelight, running light; strip lighting; theater light; torch |
| Broader | source of illumination |
| Verbs | light |
| Meaning | A particular perspective or aspect of a situation. |
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| Examples | "although he saw it in a different light, he still did not understand" |
| Broader | position, view, perspective |
| Meaning | The quality of being luminous. Emitting or reflecting light. |
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| Synonyms | luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness |
| Attributes | bright; dull |
| Narrower | illuminance, illumination; incandescence; luminescence, glow |
| Broader | physical property |
| Verbs | light |
| Meaning | An illuminated area. |
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| Examples | "he stepped into the light" |
| Broader | scene |
| Verbs | light |
| Meaning | A condition of spiritual awareness. Divine illumination. |
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| Examples | "follow God's light" |
| Synonyms | illumination |
| Broader | condition, status |
| Meaning | The visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures. |
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| Examples | "he could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark" |
| Synonyms | lightness |
| Attributes | light; dark |
| Narrower | aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole; sunniness; highlight, highlighting; brightness |
| Broader | visual property |
| Verbs | light |
| Meaning | A person regarded very fondly. |
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| Examples | "the light of my life" |
| Broader | friend |
| Meaning | Mental understanding as an enlightening experience. |
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| Examples | "he finally saw the light"; "can you shed light on this problem?" |
| Broader | insight, brainstorm, brainwave |
| Meaning | Having abundant light or illumination. |
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| Examples | "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good" |
| Synonyms | lighting |
| Broader | illumination |
| Contrary | dark, darkness |
| Verbs | light |
| Meaning | Public awareness. |
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| Examples | "it brought the scandal to light" |
| Broader | public knowledge, general knowledge |
| Meaning | Brightness and animation of countenance. |
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| Synonyms | sparkle, spark |
| Broader | vitality, verve; expression, look, aspect, facial expression, face |
| Meaning | A divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul. |
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| Synonyms | Inner Light, Light Within, Christ Within |
| Broader | ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality |
| Meaning | A visual warning signal. |
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| Examples | "they saw the light of the beacon"; "there was a light at every corner" |
| Narrower | traffic light, traffic signal, stoplight |
| Broader | visual signal |
| Meaning | A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires. |
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| Examples | "do you have a light?" |
| Synonyms | lighter, igniter, ignitor |
| Narrower | cigar lighter, cigarette lighter, pocket lighter; fuse, fuze, fusee, fuzee, primer, priming; match, lucifer, friction match; match |
| Broader | device |
| Verbs | light; light |
| Meaning | With few burdens. |
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| Examples | "experienced travellers travel light" |
| Synonyms | lightly |
| Meaning | Make lighter or brighter. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "This lamp lightens the room a bit" |
| Synonyms | illume, illumine, light up, illuminate |
| Narrower | floodlight; spotlight |
| Broader | lighten, lighten up |
| Nouns | light; light; light; light; light; light |
| Meaning | Begin to smoke. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s |
| Synonyms | light up, fire up |
| Entails | smoke |
| Broader | ignite, light |
| Nouns | light |
| Meaning | To come to rest, settle. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP |
| Examples | "Misfortune lighted upon him" |
| Synonyms | alight, perch |
| Broader | land, set down |
| Meaning | Cause to start burning. Subject to fire or great heat. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "Light a cigarette" |
| Synonyms | ignite |
| Cause to | burn, combust |
| Entailed by | set ablaze, set aflame, set on fire, set afire |
| Narrower | light up, fire up, light; reignite; kindle, enkindle, conflagrate, inflame; light up; flare up |
| Broader | burn, combust |
| Contrary | snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench |
| Nouns | lighter, light; lighter |
| Meaning | Fall to somebody by assignment or lot. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE |
| Synonyms | fall |
| Broader | fall, return, pass, devolve |
| Similar to | accrue, fall; fall |
| Meaning | Get off (a horse). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
| Synonyms | unhorse, dismount, get off, get down |
| Category | riding, horseback riding |
| Broader | descend, fall, go down, come down |