light

Simple Past: lit, Past Participle: lit

illuminated

Synonyms: animate, brighten, cast, fire, flood, floodlight, furnish with light, highlight, ignite, illume, illumine, inflame, irradiate, kindle, lighten, light up, limelight, make bright, make visible, put on, shine, spot, spotlight, switch on, turn on

simple, easy

Synonyms: effortless, facile, manageable, moderate, smooth, undemanding, unexacting, untaxing, untroublesome

Synonyms: ablaze, aglow, bright, brilliant, burnished, clear, cloudless, flashing, fluorescent, glossy, glowing, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rich, scintillant, shining, shiny, sunny, unclouded, unobscured, vivid, well-lighted, well-lit

Antonyms: black, dark, darkened, dim, gloomy, obscure

blond, fair

Synonyms: bleached, faded, fair-skinned, light-hued, light-skinned, light-toned, pale, pastel, tow-headed

Antonyms: brunette, dark, dusky

not heavy

Synonyms: agile, airy, atmospheric, buoyant, crumbly, dainty, delicate, downy, easy, effervescent, ethereal, featherweight, feathery, filmy, flimsy, floatable, floating, fluffy, friable, frothy, gossamery, graceful, imponderous, inconsequential, insubstantial, light-footed, lightweight, lithe, little, loose, meager, nimble, petty, porous, portable, sandy, sheer, slender, slight, small, spongy, sprightly, sylphlike, thin, tissuelike, trifling, trivial, unheavy, unsubstantial, weightless

Antonyms: heavy, weighted

small in amount, content

Synonyms: casual, digestible, faint, fractional, fragmentary, frivolous, frugal, gentle, hardly any, hardly enough, inadequate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indistinct, insignificant, insufficient, mild, minor, minuscule, minute, moderate, modest, not many, not much, not rich, puny, restricted, scanty, shoestring, slight, soft, sparse, superficial, thin, tiny, trifling, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial, weak, wee

Antonyms: heavy

Antonyms: difficult, heavy, laborious

funny, cheery

Synonyms: airy, amusing, animated, blithe, carefree, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, diverting, dizzy, entertaining, fickle, flighty, frivolous, gay, giddy, high, humorous, lighthearted, lively, merry, perky, pleasing, sunny, sunny-side up, superficial, trifling, trivial, up, upbeat, witty

Antonyms: grave, serious, solemn

luminescence from sun or other source

Synonyms: aurora, beacon, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, bulb, candle, coruscation, dawn, daybreak, daylight, daytime, effulgence, emanation, flare, flash, fulgor, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, irradiation, lambency, lamp, lantern, lighthouse, luminosity, luster, morn, morning, phosphorescence, radiance, radiation, ray, refulgence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, star, sun, sunbeam, sunrise, sunshine, taper, torch, window

Antonyms: dark, darkness, night, obscurity

context, point of view; understanding

Synonyms: angle, approach, aspect, attitude, awareness, comprehension, condition, education, elucidation, enlightenment, example, exemplar, explanation, illustration, information, insight, interpretation, knowledge, model, paragon, slant, standing, vantage point, viewpoint

Antonyms: misconception, misunderstanding

illuminate

Antonyms: darken, dull, obscure

start on fire

Synonyms: burn, enkindle, fire, flame, ignite, inflame, kindle, set fire to, set on fire, spark, strike a match

Antonyms: drench, extinguish, put out, quench

step down; land

Synonyms: alight, arrive, come down, deplane, detrain, disembark, drop, fly down, get down, perch, rest, roost, set down, settle, settle down, sit, sit down, stop, touch down

Antonyms: mount

the light of the sun

a strong light

moonlight

God said, "let there be light!" and there was light

As night fell, the lights in the sky multiplied.

the dim light of a candle

daylight

He was up with the first light.

I turned on the light.

an electric light

light bulb

His own testimony put him in a very bad light.

Every mother saw her own children in the best light.

He acted according to his own lights.

to shed light on the past

one of the leading lights of the English Renaissance

He was the shining light of our family.

A menacing light came into his eyes.

He listened with a fiery light burning in his eyes.

He stopped at the red light.

At the third light, turn left.

He took out a cigarette and asked me for a light.

The rooms are light and airy.

It is six p.m., but outside it is still light.

light blue

Though she had black hair, her skin was light.

He is lighter than his brother.

The fuse lighted at once.

to light a fire

to light a cigarette

She lighted the lamps.

Lamps light the street.

a well-lighted room

When he speaks people light up.

Her face lit up at the sight of her child.

The beacon light guided the ships to harbor.

All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death....

In the light of recent events, we have decided to delay our departure.

a light suitcase

He is four kilos lighter than before.

light sleep

light lunch

a light cake

a light truck

light industry

light weaponry

a light coin

I like to travel light.

a light overcoat

according to one's lights

bring to light

come to light

first light

in (the) light of

light at the end of a tunnel

light up

see the light of day

stand in one's own light

strike a light

throw light on

light in the head

light into

light out

make light of