Main entry: light, lighting
Definition: having abundant light or illumination
Usage: they played as long as it was light; as long as the lighting was good
Main entry: light, ignite
Definition: cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
Usage: Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter; Light a cigarette
Antonyms: quench, extinguish, blow out, snuff out
Definition: put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
Main entry: light
Definition: characterized by or emitting light
Usage: a room that is light when the shutters are open; the inside of the house was airy and light
Antonyms: dark
Definition: devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
Antonyms: black
Definition: (board games) the darker pieces
Antonyms: black, blackness, inkiness
Definition: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
Antonyms: black
Definition: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
Antonyms: black
Definition: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
Antonyms: dull
Definition: emitting or reflecting very little light
Definition: not set afire or burning
Main entry: light, light-colored
Definition: (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
Usage: light blue; light colors such as pastels; a light-colored powder
Antonyms: dark
Definition: (used of color) having a dark hue
Main entry: light
Definition: of comparatively little physical weight or density
Usage: a light load; magnesium is a light metal--having a specific gravity of 1.74 at 20 degrees C
Antonyms: heavy
Definition: of comparatively great physical weight or density
Main entry: light
Definition: psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
Usage: a light heart
Antonyms: heavy
Definition: marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
Main entry: light
Definition: not great in degree or quantity or number
Usage: a light sentence; a light accent; casualties were light; light snow was falling; light misty rain; light smoke from the chimney
Antonyms: heavy
Definition: unusually great in degree or quantity or number
Main entry: light
Definition: (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
Usage: light water is ordinary water
Antonyms: heavy
Definition: (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
Main entry: light
Definition: of little intensity or power or force
Usage: the light touch of her fingers; a light breeze
Antonyms: heavy
Definition: of great intensity or power or force
Definition: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
Antonyms: uneasy
Definition: lacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance
Antonyms: hard
Definition: resisting weight or pressure
Antonyms: hard
Definition: dispassionate
Antonyms: hard
Definition: (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum
Antonyms: hard, concentrated
Definition: (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
Antonyms: loud
Definition: characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
Antonyms: hardened
Definition: protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
Main entry: light
Definition: of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment
Usage: light infantry; light cavalry; light industry; light weapons
Antonyms: heavy
Definition: of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
Main entry: wakeful, light
Definition: (of sleep) easily disturbed
Usage: in a light doze; a light sleeper; a restless wakeful night
Antonyms: deep
Definition: having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination
Antonyms: deep
Definition: relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
Main entry: swooning, faint, light, light-headed, lightheaded
Definition: weak and likely to lose consciousness
Usage: suddenly felt faint from the pain; was sick and faint from hunger; felt light in the head; a swooning fit; light-headed with wine; light-headed from lack of sleep
Antonyms: well
Definition: in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury
Definition: (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well')
Antonyms: well
Definition: favorably; with approval
Main entry: light
Definition: very thin and insubstantial
Usage: thin paper; light summer dresses
Antonyms: inspissate, thicken
Definition: make thick or thicker
Antonyms: thicken, inspissate
Definition: become thick or thicker
Antonyms: fat
Definition: having an (over)abundance of flesh
Antonyms: full
Definition: (of sound) having marked deepness and body
Antonyms: thick
Definition: not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
Antonyms: thick
Definition: relatively dense in consistency
Main entry: light
Definition: (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
Usage: light soil
Antonyms: compact
Definition: closely and firmly united or packed together
Antonyms: tight
Definition: closely constrained or constricted or constricting
Main entry: unclouded, clean, clear, light
Definition: (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
Usage: efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings; clear laughter like a waterfall; clear reds and blues; a light lilting voice like a silver bell
Antonyms: impure
Definition: (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene
Antonyms: impure
Definition: combined with extraneous elements
Main entry: easy, promiscuous, light, loose, wanton, sluttish
Definition: casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
Usage: her easy virtue; he was told to avoid loose (or light) women; wanton behavior
Antonyms: chaste
Definition: morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)
Main entry: light
Definition: demanding little effort; not burdensome
Usage: light housework; light exercise
Antonyms: demanding
Definition: requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill
Main entry: light, lite, low-cal, calorie-free
Definition: having relatively few calories
Usage: diet cola; light (or lite) beer; lite (or light) mayonnaise; a low-cal diet
Main entry: light
Definition: easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
Usage: a light diet
Antonyms: indigestible
Definition: digested with difficulty
Main entry: light
Definition: designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
Usage: light aircraft; a light truck
Antonyms: heavy-duty
Definition: designed for heavy work
Main entry: light, lightsome, tripping
Definition: moving easily and quickly; nimble
Usage: the dancer was light and graceful; a lightsome buoyant step; walked with a light tripping step
Antonyms: heavy-footed
Definition: (of movement) lacking ease or lightness
Main entry: light
Definition: having little importance
Usage: losing his job was no light matter
Antonyms: important, of import
Definition: of great significance or value
Antonyms: important, significant
Definition: important in effect or meaning
Main entry: abstemious, light
Definition: marked by temperance in indulgence
Usage: abstemious with the use of adverbs; a light eater; a light smoker; ate a light supper
Antonyms: intemperate
Definition: excessive in behavior
Antonyms: intemperate
Definition: (of weather or climate) not mild; subject to extremes
Main entry: light, idle
Definition: silly or trivial
Usage: idle pleasure; light banter; light idle chatter
Antonyms: serious
Definition: concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
Main entry: light
Definition: intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound
Usage: light verse; a light comedy
Antonyms: serious
Definition: concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities
Main entry: weak, light, unaccented
Definition: (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
Usage: a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable; a weak stress on the second syllable
Main entry: light, scant, short
Definition: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
Usage: a light pound; a scant cup of sugar; regularly gives short weight
Antonyms: sufficient
Definition: of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant