sight

sight

noun

Definition of SIGHT

1

a position within view <get out of my sight!>

Synonyms company, sight

Related Words closeness, contiguity, immediacy, nearness, proximity

2

an instance of looking especially briefly <he always fainted at the merest sight of blood>

Synonyms cast, eye, gander, glance, glimpse, peek, peep, regard, sight, view

Related Words gape, gaze, glare, leer, ogle, stare; side-glance; squinny, squint; coup d'oeil

3

something unpleasant to look at <the frat house was a sight the morning after the party>

Synonyms fright, hideosity, horror, mess, monstrosity, sight

Related Words eye-catcher; blot, smear, smudge, spot, stain

Near Antonyms vision

4

the ability to see <lost his sight in an accident when he was young>

Synonyms eye, sight, vision

Related Words myopia, nearsightedness; farsightedness, hypermetropia, hyperopia, presbyopia; aniseikonia, astigmatism, diplopia, squint, strabismus; double vision

5

a considerable amount <this place sure is a good sight better than that last motel>

Synonyms abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lashings (also lashins) [chiefly British], loads, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, potful, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sheaf, shipload, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, truckload, volume, wad, wealth, yard

Related Words epidemic, plague, rash; bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus; deluge, flood, overflow; army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng; gazillion, jillion, kazillion, million, thousands, trillion, zillion

Near Antonyms atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit; smatter, smattering; dash, drop, morsel, shot; piece, portion, section; absence, dearth, famine, lack, paucity, poverty, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, undersupply, want; deficiency, deficit, inadequacy, insufficiency, meagerness, scantiness, scantness, skimpiness

Antonyms ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, suspicion, tad, taste, touch, trace