alight

²alight

adj

Definition of ALIGHT

1

chiefly British : being on fire

2

: lighted up

Examples of ALIGHT

1. The sky was alight with stars.
2. Enemy soldiers set the building alight.

First Known Use of ALIGHT

15th century

Related to ALIGHT

Synonyms: ablaze, bright, brightened, illuminated, illumined, light, lightsome, lit (or lighted)

Antonyms: blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, dimmed, dusk, dusky, lightless, pitch-black, pitch-dark, tenebrous, unlit

Related Words: floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit); ignited, kindled; moonlit, shiny, sunlit, sunny, sunshiny

Near Antonyms: gloomy, somber (or sombre), sunless; cloudy, murky, obscured, shadowlike, shadowy; gray (also grey), leaden, pale; lightproof

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