light - Similar and Opposite Words
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Noun
any device serving as a source of illumination
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a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
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the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
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merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
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the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
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mental understanding as an enlightening experience
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a particular perspective or aspect of a situation
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a visual warning signal
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a divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
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(physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
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- Moon
- beam
- beam of light
- candle flame
- candlelight
- corona
- counterglow
- daylight
- firelight
- fluorescence
- friar's lantern
- gaslight
- gegenschein
- glow
- glowing
- half-light
- ignis fatuus
- incandescence
- irradiation
- jack-o'-lantern
- lamplight
- light beam
- luminescence
- meteor
- moonlight
- moonshine
- radiance
- ray
- ray of light
- scintillation
- shaft
- shaft of light
- shooting star
- starlight
- streamer
- sun
- sunlight
- sunshine
- torchlight
- twilight
- will-o'-the-wisp
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having abundant light or illumination
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a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination
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make lighter or brighter
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alight from (a horse)
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fall to somebody by assignment or lot
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cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
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characterized by or emitting light
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casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
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(used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
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having relatively few calories
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easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
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of comparatively little physical weight or density
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psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
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(physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
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of little intensity or power or force
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of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
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(of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
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(used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
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less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
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weak and likely to lose consciousness