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light

any device serving as a source of illumination; "he stopped the car and turned off the lights"

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

public awareness; "it brought the scandal to light"

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

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

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

an illuminated area; "he stepped into the light"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

demanding little effort; not burdensome; "light housework"; "light exercise"

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

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

of comparatively little physical weight or density; "a light load"; "magnesium is a light metal--having a specific gravity of 1.74 at 20 degrees C"

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

psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles; "a light heart"

not great in degree or quantity or number; "a light sentence"; "a light accent"; "casualties were light"; "light snow was falling"; "light misty rain"; "light smoke from the chimney"

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

of little intensity or power or force; "the light touch of her fingers"; "a light breeze"

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

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

intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound; "light verse"; "a light comedy"

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

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

make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit"

Synonyms:

• ASA scale,
• Anschauung,
• British candle,
• Hefner candle,
• Mickey Mouse,
• Paphian,
• Scheiner scale,
• Very flare,
• abuse,
• accented,
• account,
• acquaintance,
• active,
• aerial,
• aeriform,
• aery,
• agile,
• airish,
• airlike,
• airy,
• alabaster,
• alabastrine,
• albescent,
• alfresco,
• alight,
• allegorization,
• alveolar,
• amplitude,
• amusing,
• angle,
• angle of vision,
• ankle-deep,
• announcement,
• antelope,
• antinode,
• apical,
• apico-alveolar,
• apico-dental,
• appear,
• arrow,
• articulated,
• asinine,
• aspect,
• assail,
• assault,
• assimilated,
• atmospheric,
• attack,
• attenuate,
• attenuated,
• aurora,
• back,
• balefire,
• bank,
• barytone,
• basis,
• bay,
• bay window,
• be exposed,
• be revealed,
• beacon,
• beacon fire,
• beacons,
• beaming,
• bearable,
• beat,
• belabor,
• berate,
• bilabial,
• birdbrained,
• birdwitted,
• blond,
• blue book,
• blue darter,
• blue streak,
• bougie decimale,
• bow window,
• boyish,
• brand,
• break,
• break of day,
• breakable,
• breezy,
• briefing,
• bright,
• brighten,
• brighten up,
• brightening,
• brightness,
• brilliant,
• bring to light,
• brittle,
• broad,
• bubbly,
• bulletin,
• bump,
• buoyant,
• burn,
• butane lighter,
• cacuminal,
• camp,
• campy,
• candle,
• candle lumen,
• candle power,
• candle-foot,
• candle-hour,
• candle-meter,
• candlelight,
• cannonball,
• carefree,
• casement,
• casement window,
• casual,
• catchpenny,
• central,
• cerebral,
• chambering,
• chance,
• changeable,
• chanticleer,
• cheap-jack,
• checked,
• cheer up,
• cheerful,
• cigarette lighter,
• clarification,
• clarify,
• clear,
• climb down,
• clobber,
• close,
• cloudless,
• cobwebby,
• cockcrow,
• cocklight,
• come across,
• come down,
• come in,
• come out,
• come to light,
• comic,
• communication,
• communique,
• configuration,
• conflagrate,
• considering,
• consonant,
• consonantal,
• continuant,
• coquettish,
• corky,
• counterglow,
• courser,
• crack of dawn,
• cracking,
• crash-land,
• cream,
• creamy,
• crest,
• crumbly,
• cursory,
• cushy,
• dainty,
• dart,
• data,
• datum,
• dawn,
• dawning,
• day-peep,
• daybreak,
• daylight,
• dayspring,
• de Broglie wave,
• debark,
• debonair,
• decimal candle,
• decipherment,
• decoding,
• delicate,
• delicately weak,
• demonstration,
• demythologization,
• dental,
• deplane,
• depthless,
• descend,
• detrain,
• develop,
• diaphane,
• diaphanous,
• diffraction,
• diluted,
• dim,
• directory,
• disclose,
• discover,
• disembark,
• dismiss,
• dismount,
• dispatch,
• display case,
• dissimilated,
• ditch,
• diverting,
• dizzy,
• dorsal,
• downwind,
• downy,
• dun-white,
• eagle,
• easy,
• easy as pie,
• easygoing,
• editing,
• effect,
• effeminate,
• effortless,
• effulgent,
• eggshell,
• eidolon,
• electric light bulb,
• electricity,
• electromagnetic radiation,
• electromagnetic wave,
• elucidate,
• elucidation,
• emendation,
• emerge,
• empty,
• empty-headed,
• encounter,
• endurable,
• enkindle,
• enlighten,
• enlightenment,
• entertaining,
• epidermal,
• eternity,
• ethereal,
• euhemerism,
• evanescent,
• evidence,
• evolve,
• exegesis,
• exemplification,
• explain,
• explanation,
• explication,
• expose,
• exposed,
• exposition,
• exposure meter,
• expounding,
• express train,
• eye,
• facet,
• facile,
• facts,
• factual information,
• faddish,
• faded,
• faint,
• fair,
• familiarization,
• fan the flame,
• fan window,
• fanlight,
• farcical,
• fashion,
• fatuous,
• featherbrained,
• featherweight,
• feathery,
• featly,
• feature,
• feed,
• feed the fire,
• fickle,
• figure,
• find,
• fine,
• fine-drawn,
• finespun,
• fire,
• firebrand,
• firelight,
• first brightening,
• flambeau,
• flame,
• flare,
• flare-up,
• flash,
• flashlight,
• flat,
• fleet,
• flighty,
• flimsy,
• flint,
• flint and steel,
• flirtatious,
• flood with light,
• floodlight,
• fluffy,
• fluorescence,
• fluorescent,
• flux,
• foamy,
• foolish,
• foot-candle,
• footing,
• form,
• fragile,
• frail,
• frame of reference,
• framework,
• frangible,
• free and easy,
• frequency,
• frequency band,
• frequency spectrum,
• fribble,
• fribbling,
• frivolous,
• front,
• frothy,
• fusee,
• futile,
• gaslight,
• gauzy,
• gay,
• gazelle,
• gen,
• general information,
• gentle,
• gestalt,
• get down,
• get off,
• giddy,
• gimcrack,
• gimcracky,
• girlish,
• glare,
• glass,
• glassware,
• glaucescent,
• glaucous,
• gleam,
• glib,
• glide,
• glim,
• glory,
• gloss,
• glossal,
• glottal,
• glow,
• go down,
• gossamer,
• gossamery,
• graceful,
• gracile,
• gray-white,
• greased lightning,
• greyhound,
• grille,
• grow bright,
• grow light,
• guidebook,
• guided wave,
• guise,
• guttural,
• handout,
• happy,
• happy-go-lucky,
• harangue,
• hard,
• hard information,
• hare,
• headlight,
• heavy,
• high,
• highlight,
• hit,
• holiness,
• idle,
• ignite,
• igniter,
• ignition,
• illume,
• illuminant,
• illuminate,
• illumination,
• illuminator,
• illumine,
• illustration,
• image,
• imago,
• immutability,
• imperceptible,
• imponderous,
• impression,
• in consideration of,
• in phase,
• in view of,
• inane,
• incandescence,
• incandescent,
• incandescent body,
• incidental information,
• inconsequential,
• inconsiderable,
• inconstant,
• indistinct,
• infinite goodness,
• infinite justice,
• infinite love,
• infinite mercy,
• infinite power,
• infinite wisdom,
• infinity,
• inflame,
• info,
• information,
• insight,
• insignificant,
• instruction,
• insubstantial,
• intelligence,
• intensity,
• interference,
• international candle,
• intonated,
• iridescent,
• irradiate,
• ivory,
• ivory-white,
• jaunty,
• jejune,
• jerry,
• jerry-built,
• jet plane,
• jolly,
• jovial,
• joyful,
• kindle,
• knee-deep,
• knowledge,
• labial,
• labiodental,
• labiovelar,
• lacy,
• lambaste,
• lamp,
• lamp-hour,
• lancet window,
• land,
• lantern,
• lateral,
• lattice,
• lax,
• leger,
• level off,
• light as air,
• light bulb,
• light into,
• light meter,
• light quantum,
• light source,
• light up,
• light upon,
• light-colored,
• light-footed,
• light-headed,
• light-hearted,
• light-hued,
• lighten,
• lighter,
• lighter than vanity,
• lighthearted,
• lighthouse,
• lightish,
• lightning,
• lightship,
• lightsome,
• lightweight,
• likeness,
• limber,
• lineaments,
• lingual,
• lint-white,
• liquid,
• lissome,
• lithe,
• little,
• longitudinal wave,
• look,
• loose,
• loose-moraled,
• louver window,
• low,
• lucent,
• lucid,
• luck,
• luculent,
• lumen,
• lumen meter,
• lumen-hour,
• lumeter,
• luminant,
• luminary,
• luminate,
• luminescence,
• luminosity,
• luminous,
• luminous flux,
• luminous intensity,
• luminous power,
• lux,
• magnesium flare,
• majesty,
• make a light,
• make known,
• make light of,
• manner,
• match,
• meager,
• mechanical wave,
• meet,
• meet up with,
• mellow,
• mental outlook,
• mention,
• mercurial,
• mercury,
• merry,
• message,
• mid,
• mild,
• misty,
• moderate,
• monophthongal,
• moon,
• moonlight,
• morn,
• morning,
• mother-of-pearl,
• mousse,
• muted,
• nacreous,
• namby-pamby,
• narrow,
• nasal,
• nasalized,
• neat-fingered,
• neat-handed,
• nimble,
• nimble-footed,
• node,
• not deep,
• nothing to it,
• notice,
• notification,
• nugacious,
• nugatory,
• obscure,
• occlusive,
• occulting light,
• of easy virtue,
• of loose morals,
• off-white,
• omnipotence,
• omnipotency,
• omnipresence,
• omniscience,
• omnisciency,
• on the surface,
• opalescent,
• open,
• open the light,
• open-air,
• oriel,
• otiose,
• out of phase,
• outlook,
• overshine,
• overshoot,
• oxytone,
• painless,
• palatal,
• palatalized,
• pale,
• pancake,
• pane,
• papery,
• pasteboardy,
• pastel,
• patinaed,
• pearl,
• pearly,
• pearly-white,
• peart,
• peep of day,
• pellucid,
• perch,
• period,
• periodic wave,
• perky,
• petty,
• pharos,
• pharyngeal,
• pharyngealized,
• phase,
• phasis,
• phonemic,
• phonetic,
• phonic,
• phosphorescence,
• phosphorescent,
• photon,
• picture window,
• pitch,
• pitched,
• place,
• plain,
• pneumatic,
• point of view,
• port,
• portable,
• portfire,
• porthole,
• position,
• posttonic,
• presentation,
• prime,
• promiscuous,
• promotional material,
• proof,
• publication,
• publicity,
• puny,
• put on,
• quantum,
• quicksilver,
• quiet,
• radiance,
• radiation,
• radio wave,
• rare,
• rarefied,
• rationale,
• ray,
• reason,
• reference,
• reference system,
• reflection,
• regard,
• reinforcement,
• rekindle,
• release,
• relight,
• relucent,
• relume,
• relumine,
• report,
• resilient,
• resonance,
• resonance frequency,
• respect,
• retroflex,
• reveal,
• ridicule,
• rocket,
• roomy,
• roost,
• rose window,
• rounded,
• sad,
• scared rabbit,
• scatterbrained,
• scintillation,
• scold,
• seeming,
• seismic wave,
• semblance,
• semigloss,
• semivowel,
• serene,
• set down,
• set fire to,
• set on fire,
• settle,
• settle down,
• shallow,
• shallow-headed,
• shallow-minded,
• shallow-pated,
• shallow-rooted,
• shallow-witted,
• shape,
• shattery,
• shed light upon,
• shine,
• shine a light,
• shine upon,
• shining,
• shoal,
• shock wave,
• shopwindow,
• shot,
• showcase,
• shrug off,
• side,
• sidelight,
• sight,
• signal beacon,
• signal flare,
• signal lamp,
• signal rocket,
• silly,
• simple,
• simple as ABC,
• simplification,
• simplify,
• simulacrum,
• sissified,
• sit down,
• situation,
• skin-deep,
• skinny,
• skittish,
• skylight,
• skyrocket,
• slack,
• slant,
• slapstick,
• sleazy,
• slender,
• slenderish,
• slight,
• slight-made,
• slim,
• slimmish,
• slinky,
• small,
• smooth,
• sober,
• soft,
• soft-colored,
• soft-hued,
• softened,
• solution,
• somber,
• sonant,
• souffle,
• sound wave,
• source of light,
• sovereignty,
• sparker,
• sparkle,
• spill,
• spotlight,
• sprightly,
• spry,
• stand,
• standpoint,
• starlight,
• stars,
• statement,
• stemware,
• stir the fire,
• stoke,
• stoke the fire,
• stopped,
• straightforward,
• streak,
• streak of lightning,
• stressed,
• strike a light,
• striped snake,
• strong,
• stumble,
• stumble on,
• style,
• subdued,
• subtle,
• sun,
• sunlight,
• sunny,
• sunrise,
• sunup,
• superficial,
• supportable,
• surd,
• sure-footed,
• surface,
• surface wave,
• svelte,
• swallow,
• sweet,
• swift,
• switch on,
• syllabic,
• sylphlike,
• system,
• tacky,
• taking into account,
• talk down,
• taper,
• tender,
• tense,
• tenuous,
• the dope,
• the goods,
• the know,
• the scoop,
• thick,
• thin,
• thin-bodied,
• thin-set,
• thin-spun,
• thinnish,
• thought,
• threadlike,
• throaty,
• throw light upon,
• thunderbolt,
• tidal wave,
• tolerable,
• tonal,
• tongue-lash,
• tonic,
• torch,
• torrent,
• total effect,
• touch down,
• touch off,
• toying,
• tragicomic,
• translucent,
• translucid,
• transmission,
• transom,
• transparent,
• transparent substance,
• transpire,
• transverse wave,
• trifling,
• trite,
• trivial,
• trivialize,
• tropospheric,
• trough,
• tumble,
• turn on,
• turn up,
• twangy,
• twist,
• ubiquity,
• unaccented,
• unburdensome,
• unclear,
• unclouded,
• uncomplicated,
• uncover,
• undemanding,
• undependable,
• understanding,
• underweight,
• unearth,
• unheavy,
• unhorse,
• unimportant,
• unit of flux,
• unit of light,
• unity,
• universe,
• unlocking,
• unobscured,
• unpredictable,
• unprofound,
• unreliable,
• unrounded,
• unstressed,
• unsubstantial,
• untaxing,
• unveil,
• upbraid,
• upwind,
• vacant,
• vacillating,
• vacuous,
• vague,
• vain,
• vapid,
• velar,
• versatile,
• vertiginous,
• vestibule of Day,
• view,
• viewpoint,
• vitrics,
• vitrine,
• vocalic,
• vocoid,
• voiced,
• voiceless,
• volatile,
• vowel,
• vowellike,
• wanton,
• watch crystal,
• watch fire,
• watch glass,
• watered,
• watered-down,
• watery,
• wave,
• wave equation,
• wave motion,
• wave number,
• wavelength,
• wayward,
• weak,
• weightless,
• white book,
• white paper,
• whitish,
• whity,
• whorish,
• wicket,
• wide,
• willowy,
• wind,
• window,
• window bay,
• window glass,
• windowlight,
• windowpane,
• windy,
• wiredrawn,
• wise,
• wispy,
• witty,
• womanish,
• word,
• write off,
• yeasty