alight

1 filled with much light we approached the clearing, alight with torches, and observed a reenactment of ancient rites by Druids Synonyms ablaze, bright, brightened, illuminated, illumined, light, lightsome, lit (or lighted)Related Words floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit); ignited, kindled; moonlit, shiny, sunlit, sunny, sunshinyNear Antonyms gloomy, somber (or sombre), sunless; cloudy, murky, obscured, shadowlike, shadowy; gray (also grey), leaden, pale; lightproofAntonyms blackened, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, dimmed, dusk, dusky, lightless, pitch-black, pitch-dark, tenebrous, unlit

2 chiefly British  being on fire the pub, one of London's oldest, was completely alight by the time firefighters arrived Synonyms afire, aflame, ablaze [chiefly British], blazing, burning, combusting, conflagrant, fiery, flaming, ignited, inflamed (also enflamed), kindled, lit (or lighted)Related Words aglow, flaring, flickering, glowing, live, smoldering (or smouldering); broiling, hot, piping hot, red-hot, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, sizzling; burned (or burnt), charred, incinerated, scorched, seared, singedNear Antonyms choked, damped, dead, doused (also dowsed), extinguished, quenched, smothered, snuffed (out), stamped (out), suffocated

1 to come to rest after descending from the air a flock of eight swans circled above, then alighted on the pond Synonyms land, light, perch, roost, settle, touch down Related Words belly-land, crash-land Near Antonyms arise, ascend, climb, rise; float, fly, glide, plane, soar, wing; hang, hover Antonyms blast off, take off

2 to come down from something (as a vehicle) as she alighted from the coach, she momentarily lost her footing Synonyms descend, disembark, dismount, get down, light Related Words deplane, detrain Near Antonyms board, climb (aboard), get in, mount; enplane (also emplane), entrain Antonyms embark