| alight | (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, on fire |
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| (verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| blight | (noun) a state or condition being blighted | - |
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| (noun) any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting | - |
| (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
| blighted | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| blighter | (noun) a persistently annoying person | Synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer |
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| (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad |
| candlelight | (noun) the light provided by a burning candle | Synonyms: candle flame |
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| daylight | (noun) light during the daytime | - |
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| (noun) the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside | Synonyms: day, daytime |
| deadlight | (noun) a strong shutter over a ship's porthole that is closed in stormy weather | - |
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| delight | (noun) something or someone that provides a source of happiness | Synonyms: joy, pleasure |
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| (noun) a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction | Synonyms: delectation |
| (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| delighted | (adjective) filled with wonder and delight | Synonyms: beguiled, captivated, charmed, enthralled, entranced |
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| (adjective) greatly pleased | - |
| delightedly | (adverb) with delight | - |
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| delightful | (adjective) greatly pleasing or entertaining | Synonyms: delicious |
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| delightfully | (adverb) in a delightful manner | - |
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| enlighten | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make understand | Synonyms: edify |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: irradiate |
| enlightened | (adjective) having knowledge and spiritual insight | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved | Synonyms: educated |
| (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: initiate |
| enlightening | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: illuminating, informative |
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| (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: edifying |
| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |
| fanlight | (noun) a semicircular window over a door or window; usually has sash bars like the ribs of a fan | - |
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| (noun) a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door | Synonyms: transom, transom window |
| (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: skylight |
| firelight | (noun) the light of a fire (especially in a fireplace) | - |
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| firelighter | (noun) (a piece of) a substance that burns easily and can be used to start a coal or coke fire | - |
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| flashlight | (noun) a small portable battery-powered electric lamp | Synonyms: torch |
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| flight | (noun) an instance of traveling by air | Synonyms: flying |
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| (noun) the act of escaping physically | Synonyms: escape |
| (noun) a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports | - |
| (noun) a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next | Synonyms: flight of stairs, flight of steps |
| (noun) passing above and beyond ordinary bounds | - |
| (noun) an air force unit smaller than a squadron | - |
| (noun) a formation of aircraft in flight | - |
| (noun) a flock of flying birds | - |
| (noun) the path followed by an object moving through space | Synonyms: trajectory |
| (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
| (verb) fly in a flock | - |
| (verb) shoot a bird in flight | - |
| flighted | (adjective) having feathers | - |
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| flightiness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: arbitrariness, capriciousness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| flightless | (adjective) incapable of flying | - |
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| flightlessness | (noun) The condition of being unable to fly, usually used with birds such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu. | - |
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| flighty | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: nervous, skittish, spooky |
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| (adjective) guided by whim and fancy | Synonyms: flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained |
| floodlight | (noun) light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam; used in photography | Synonyms: flood, flood lamp, photoflood |
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| (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
| floodlighted | (adjective) illuminated by means of floodlights | Synonyms: floodlit |
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| footlights | (noun) theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors | - |
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| gaslight | (noun) light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas | - |
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| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| headlight | (noun) a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive | Synonyms: headlamp |
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| highlight | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlighting |
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| (noun) the most interesting or memorable part | Synonyms: high spot |
| (verb) apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, play up, spotlight |
| highlighter | (noun) a fluorescent marker used to mark important passages in a text | - |
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| (noun) a cosmetic used to highlight the eyes or cheekbones | - |
| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| houselights | (noun) lights that illuminate the audience's part of a theater or other auditorium | - |
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| jacklight | (noun) a light used as a lure in hunting or fishing at night | - |
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| (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
| lamplight | (noun) light from a lamp | - |
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| lamplighter | (noun) (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights | - |
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| light | (adjective) of comparatively little physical weight or density | - |
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| (adjective) psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles | - |
| (adjective) not great in degree or quantity or number | - |
| (adjective) of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment | - |
| (adjective) (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent | Synonyms: light-colored |
| (adjective) characterized by or emitting light | - |
| (adjective) (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average | - |
| (adjective) of little intensity or power or force | - |
| (adjective) easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned | - |
| (adjective) silly or trivial | Synonyms: idle |
| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, lightheaded, swooning |
| (adjective) having little importance | - |
| (adjective) less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so | Synonyms: scant, short |
| (adjective) designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight | - |
| (adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: lightsome, tripping |
| (adjective) (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency | - |
| (adjective) having relatively few calories | Synonyms: calorie-free, lite, low-cal |
| (adjective) (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims | Synonyms: clean, clear, unclouded |
| (adjective) (of sleep) easily disturbed | Synonyms: wakeful |
| (adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: abstemious |
| (adjective) very thin and insubstantial | - |
| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, loose, promiscuous, sluttish, wanton |
| (adjective) demanding little effort; not burdensome | - |
| (adjective) (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress | Synonyms: unaccented, weak |
| (adjective) intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound | - |
| (noun) any device serving as a source of illumination | Synonyms: light source |
| (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, lighter |
| (noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: lightness |
| (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminosity, luminousness |
| (noun) merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance | Synonyms: spark, sparkle, twinkle |
| (noun) mental understanding as an enlightening experience | - |
| (noun) a particular perspective or aspect of a situation | - |
| (noun) public awareness | - |
| (noun) a visual warning signal | - |
| (noun) an illuminated area | - |
| (noun) a person regarded very fondly | - |
| (noun) (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation | Synonyms: visible light, visible radiation |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: lighting |
| (noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: illumination |
| (adverb) with few burdens | Synonyms: lightly |
| (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, illumine, light up |
| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, ignite |
| (verb) begin to smoke | Synonyms: fire up, light up |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, perch |
| (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, unhorse |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: ignite |
| lightbulb | (noun) electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity | Synonyms: bulb, electric-light bulb, electric light, incandescent lamp, light bulb |
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| lighted | (adjective) set afire or burning | Synonyms: lit |
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| (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: illuminated, lit, well-lighted |
| lighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: brighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become lighter | Synonyms: lighten up |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: relieve |
| (verb) become more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| (verb) reduce the weight on; make lighter | - |
| (verb) make more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| lightener | (noun) any type of lightening agent that can be used to brighten the appearance of hair, skin, wood and other surfaces. | - |
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| lightening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: whitening |
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| (noun) descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped | - |
| lighter | (noun) a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor, light |
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| (noun) a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals) | Synonyms: barge, flatboat, hoy |
| (noun) a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire | Synonyms: igniter, ignitor |
| (verb) transport in a flatbottom boat | - |
| lighterage | (noun) the transportation of goods on a lighter | - |
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| (noun) the fee charged for carrying goods in lighters | - |
| lighterman | (noun) someone who operates a barge | Synonyms: bargee, bargeman |
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| lightheaded | (adjective) lacking seriousness; given to frivolity | Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, silly |
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| (adjective) weak and likely to lose consciousness | Synonyms: faint, light-headed, light, swooning |
| lightheadedness | (noun) a frivolous lack of prudence | - |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, giddiness, vertigo |
| lighthearted | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lightsome |
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| lightheartedness | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightsomeness |
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| lighthouse | (noun) a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships | Synonyms: beacon, beacon light, pharos |
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| lighting | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling |
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| (noun) the craft of providing artificial light | - |
| (noun) apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film | - |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: light |
| lightless | (adjective) without illumination | Synonyms: unilluminated, unlighted, unlit |
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| (adjective) giving no light | - |
| lightlessness | (noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, blackness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
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| lightly | (adverb) with little weight or force | Synonyms: gently, softly |
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| (adverb) indulging with temperance | - |
| (adverb) with few burdens | Synonyms: light |
| (adverb) in a small quantity or extent | Synonyms: thinly |
| (adverb) with indifference or without dejection | - |
| (adverb) to a slight degree | - |
| (adverb) without good reason | - |
| lightness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightsomeness |
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| (noun) the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures | Synonyms: light |
| (noun) the property of being comparatively small in weight | Synonyms: weightlessness |
| (noun) having a light color | - |
| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
| (noun) a feeling of joy and pride | Synonyms: elation, high spirits |
| lightning | (noun) the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more | - |
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| (noun) abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light | - |
| lightproof | (adjective) not penetrable by light | Synonyms: light-tight |
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| lightship | (noun) a ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable | - |
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| lightsome | (adjective) carefree and happy and lighthearted | Synonyms: blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted |
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| (adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: light, tripping |
| lightsomely | (adverb) in a light-hearted manner | Synonyms: light-heartedly |
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| (adverb) moving with quick light steps | Synonyms: trippingly |
| lightsomeness | (noun) the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous | Synonyms: lightness |
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| (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, nimbleness |
| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness |
| lightstick | (noun) A portable rod used for illumination. | - |
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| lightweight | (adjective) weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use | - |
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| (adjective) having no importance or influence | - |
| (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division. | - |
| (noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds | - |
| (noun) a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds | - |
| (noun) someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous | Synonyms: jackanapes, whippersnapper |
| (noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds | - |
| lightwood | (noun) tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber | Synonyms: Acacia melanoxylon |
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| limelight | (noun) a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting | Synonyms: calcium light |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, public eye, spotlight |
| moonlight | (noun) the light of the Moon | Synonyms: Moon, moonshine |
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| (verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| overflight | (noun) a flight by an aircraft over a particular area (especially over an area in foreign territory) | - |
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| penlight | (noun) a small flashlight resembling a fountain pen | - |
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| plight | (noun) a solemn pledge of fidelity | Synonyms: troth |
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| (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: predicament, quandary |
| (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: pledge |
| (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, engage |
| quarterlight | (noun) car window consisting of a small pivoted glass vent in the door of a car | - |
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| rushlight | (noun) a tallow candle with a rush stem as the wick | Synonyms: rush candle |
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| searchlight | (noun) a light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction | - |
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| sidelight | (noun) light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow | Synonyms: running light |
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| skylight | (noun) a window in a roof to admit daylight | Synonyms: fanlight |
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| slight | (adjective) (quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some | Synonyms: little |
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| (adjective) lacking substance or significance | Synonyms: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin |
| (adjective) being of delicate or slender build | Synonyms: slender, slim, svelte |
| (noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval) | Synonyms: rebuff |
| (verb) pay no attention to, disrespect | Synonyms: cold-shoulder |
| slighting | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory |
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| slightingly | (adverb) in a disparaging manner | Synonyms: disparagingly |
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| slightly | (adverb) to a small degree or extent | Synonyms: more or less, somewhat |
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| (adverb) in a slim or slender manner | Synonyms: slenderly, slimly |
| slightness | (noun) slenderness | Synonyms: delicacy |
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| (noun) the property of an attractively thin person | Synonyms: slenderness, slimness |
| (noun) the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous | Synonyms: pettiness, puniness, triviality |
| spaceflight | (noun) a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere | Synonyms: space travel, spacefaring |
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| spotlight | (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spot |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye |
| (verb) illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up |
| starlight | (noun) the light of the stars | - |
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| stoplight | (noun) a visual signal to control the flow of traffic at intersections | Synonyms: traffic light, traffic signal |
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| (noun) a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop | Synonyms: brake light |
| streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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| sunlight | (noun) the rays of the sun | Synonyms: sun, sunshine |
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| taillight | (noun) lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle | Synonyms: rear lamp, rear light, tail lamp |
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| torchlight | (noun) light from a torch or torches | - |
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| twilight | (adjective) lighted by or as if by twilight | Synonyms: dusky, twilit |
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| (noun) the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth | - |
| (noun) a condition of decline following successes | - |
| (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall |
| unenlightened | (adjective) not enlightened; ignorant | - |
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| (adjective) lacking information or instruction | Synonyms: naive, uninstructed |
| unenlightening | (adjective) failing to inform or clarify | Synonyms: unilluminating |
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| (adjective) not edifying | Synonyms: unedifying |
| unenlightenment | (noun) a lack of understanding | - |
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| unlighted | (adjective) not set afire or burning | Synonyms: unlit |
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| (adjective) without illumination | Synonyms: lightless, unilluminated, unlit |