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Nouns (20)

n. a visual warning signal; "they saw the light of the beacon"; "there was a light at every corner"

n. an illuminated area; "he stepped into the light"

n. mental understanding as an enlightening experience; "he finally saw the light"; "can you shed light on this problem?"

light

n. public awareness; "it brought the scandal to light"

Light

n. [the natural force that makes sight possible]

light

n. a particular perspective or aspect of a situation; "although he saw it in a different light, he still did not understand"

light

n. a person regarded very fondly; "the light of my life"

light, lightness

n. the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures; "he could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark"

light, illumination

n. a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination; "follow God's light"

light, lighting

n. having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good"

light, visible light, visible radiation

n. (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation; "the light was filtered through a soft glass window"

sparkle, twinkle, spark, light

n. merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes"

Verbs (5)

fall, light

v. fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"

light up, fire up, light

v. begin to smoke; "After the meal, some of the diners lit up"

Adverbs (2)

lightly, light

adv. with few burdens; "experienced travellers travel light"

Adjectives (27)

light

adj. easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned; "a light diet"

light

adj. designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight; "light aircraft"; "a light truck"

light

adj. having little importance; "losing his job was no light matter"

light

adj. of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment; "light infantry"; "light cavalry"; "light industry"; "light weapons"

light

adj. (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average; "light water is ordinary water"

light

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "light summer dresses"

light

adj. characterized by or emitting light; "a room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light"

light

adj. (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency; "light soil"

light, raised

adj. "raised bread"; "light bread"

light, wakeful

adj. (of sleep) easily disturbed; "in a light doze"; "a light sleeper"; "a restless wakeful night"

light, light-colored

adj. (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent; "light blue"; "light colors such as pastels"; "a light-colored powder"

unaccented, light, weak

adj. (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress; "a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable"; "a weak stress on the second syllable"

light, scant(p), short

adj. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"

light, lite, low-cal, calorie-free

adj. having relatively few calories; "diet cola"; "light (or lite) beer"; "lite (or light) mayonnaise"; "a low-cal diet"

light, lightsome, tripping

adj. moving easily and quickly; nimble; "the dancer was light and graceful"; "a lightsome buoyant step"; "walked with a light tripping step"

Fuzzynyms (78)

signal

n. an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes

slant, angle

n. a biased way of looking at or presenting something

stream, flow, current

n. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history"

animation, life, living, aliveness

n. the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"

exhilaration, excitement

n. the feeling of lively and cheerful joy; "he could hardly conceal his excitement when she agreed"

deprecate, depreciate, vilipend

v. belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts"

devalue

v. lower the value or quality of; "The tear devalues the painting"

inflame

v. become inflamed; get sore; "His throat inflamed"

light

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "light summer dresses"

flippant, light-minded

adj. showing inappropriate levity

shallow

adj. lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious; "shallow people"; "his arguments seemed shallow and tedious"

superficial

adj. concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually; "superficial similarities"; "a superficial mind"; "his thinking was superficial and fuzzy"; "superficial knowledge"; "the superficial report didn't give the true picture"; "only superficial differences"

fair, fairish

adj. (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion";

uncolored, uncoloured

adj. without color; "pure water is uncolored"

pastel

adj. lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music"

pale

adj. not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent

adj. radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"

blissful

adj. completely happy and contented; "blissful young lovers"; "in blissful ignorance"

exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant

adj. joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout"

light

adj. designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight; "light aircraft"; "a light truck"

weightless

adj. having little or no weight or apparent gravitational pull; light; "floating freely in a weightless condition"; "a baby bat...fluffy and weightless as a moth"; "jackets made of a weightless polyester fabric"

translucent, semitransparent

adj. allowing light to pass through diffusely; "translucent amber"; "semitransparent curtains at the windows"

slender, slight, slim, svelte

adj. being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

lathery, sudsy

adj. resembling lather or covered with lather

buoyant, floaty

adj. tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas; "buoyant balloons"; "buoyant balsawood boats"; "a floaty scarf"

fair, fairish

adj. (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion";

bleached, faded, washed-out, washy

adj. having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"

creamy

adj. of the color of cream; "creamy translucent pebbles"

beaming, beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent

adj. radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"

meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy

adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

bare(a), scanty, spare

adj. lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"

sparse, thin

adj. not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse"

deficient, lacking(p), wanting(p)

adj. inadequate in amount or degree; "a deficient education"; "deficient in common sense"; "lacking in stamina"; "tested and found wanting"

Synonyms (46)

assimilable

adj. able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues

digested

adj. capable of undergoing digestion; "a supply of easily digested foods"

predigested

adj. artificially partially digested as by enzymatic action; "predigested foods are a boon for those who are ill or have impaired digestion"

capillary, hairlike

adj. long and slender with a very small internal diameter; "a capillary tube"

filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready

adj. thin in diameter; resembling a thread

tenuous

adj. very thin in gauge or diameter; "a tenuous thread"

flimsy

adj. very thin and insubstantial; "thin paper"; "flimsy voile"; "light summer dresses"

hyperfine

adj. extremely fine or thin, as in a spectral line split into two or more components; "hyperfine structure"

papery

adj. thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material"

sleazy

adj. of cloth; thin and loosely woven; "the coat has a sleazy lining"

sandy

adj. (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency; "light sandy soil"

shifting, unfirm

adj. (of soil) unstable; "shifting sands"; "unfirm earth"

sourdough

adj. leavened with fermented dough; "sourdough bread"

spongy

adj. like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed

amusing, amusive, diverting

adj. providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story"

colored, coloured, colorful

adj. having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in color"; "amber-colored heads of grain"

feminine

adj. (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable; "a feminine ending"

short

adj. (prosody) used of vowels or syllables

unemphatic

adj. not emphasized

depleted, low

adj. no longer sufficient; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted"

lean

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

lean, skimpy

adj. containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

scarce

adj. not enough; hard to find; "meat was scarce during the war"

shy(p)

adj. short; "eleven is one shy of a dozen"

buoyant, floaty

adj. tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas; "buoyant balloons"; "buoyant balsawood boats"; "a floaty scarf"

chiffon

adj. of pastry: having a light delicate texture achieved by whipping or adding whipped egg whites: "lemon chiffon pie"

feathery, featherlike

adj. resembling or suggesting a feather or feathers; "feathery palm trees"

lightweight

adj. having no importance or influence; "a lightweight intellect"

low-density(p)

adj. having low relative density or specific gravity

short, scant

adj. less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"

weightless

Antonyms (46)

dark, darkness

n. absence of light or illumination

darken

v. tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name"

snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench

v. put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"

leave, leave behind

v. be survived by after one's death; "He left six children"; "At her death, she left behind her husband and 11 cats"

leave, leave alone, leave behind

v. leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind"

leave, depart, pull up stakes

v. remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"

weighty

adj. weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; "weighty problems"

heavy

adj. marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids"

leaden

adj. made of lead; "a leaden weight"

oppressive

adj. weighing heavily on the senses or spirit; "the atmosphere was oppressive"; "oppressive sorrows"

heavy

adj. of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; "heavy artillery"; "heavy infantry"; "a heavy cruiser"; "heavy guns"; "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries"

heavy, weighed down

adj. full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes"

big

adj. marked by intense physical force; "a big wind"

fleshy, heavy, overweight

adj. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it

thick, heavy

adj. abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust"

dark

adj. devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"

dimmed, dim

adj. made dim or less bright; "the dimmed houselights brought a hush of anticipation"; "dimmed headlights"; "we like dimmed lights when we have dinner"

glooming, gloomy, gloomful, sulky

adj. depressingly dark; "the gloomy forest"; "the glooming interior of an old inn"; "`gloomful' is archaic"

dusky, twilight(a), twilit

adj. lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious

adj. dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"

dark

adj. not giving performances; closed; "the theater is dark on Mondays"

sufficient

adj. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant; "sufficient food"

dusky, twilight(a), twilit

adj. lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

light

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