Antonym word for light

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  • dark

    brightness, pale

  • heavy

    insubstantial, simple

  • extinguish

    ignite, land

  • gloomy

    bright, simple

  • darkness

    brightness, context

  • put out

    ignite, land

  • dusky

    bright, simple

  • black

    simple, dark

  • dim

    bright, simple

  • quench

    ignite, land

  • dull

    illuminate, land

  • darkened

    blond, funny

  • clumsy

    nimble, not heavy

  • strong

    weak, crumbly

  • oppressive

    not heavy

  • harsh

    content

  • darken

    illuminate, land

  • cloudy

    illuminated

  • obscure

    blond, funny

  • difficult

    blond, funny

  • laborious

    blond, funny

  • serious

    insignificant, light-hearted

  • big

    content, not heavy

  • fat

    content, not heavy

  • thick

    content, not heavy

  • coarse

  • rough

    content

  • violent

  • rich

    digestible

  • hard

    crumbly

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lightness, lighten, lighthouse, lightsome, lighted, lightly, lighter, lighting, lightweight, lightening, lightning, lightened, lightship, lightish

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  • kill
  • squelch
  • extinguish
  • illuminate
  • murder
  • smother
  • suppress
  • put out a fire
  • step down; land
  • extinguish; cover, hide
  • suppress, restrain
  • restrain, hold in check
  • concealment
  • ghost
  • shade
  • dark
  • blackness
  • darkness
  • covering
  • dimness
  • outline
  • cloud
  • secrecy
  • night
  • intimation
  • mourning
  • nuance
  • secretiveness
  • setting
  • dusk
  • gloom
  • illusion
  • phantom
  • shelter
  • shroud
  • trace
  • phantasma
  • mass of water particles in air
  • place, time that is unlit
  • silhouette
  • melancholy, depression
  • clue, hint
  • luminescence from sun or other source
  • context, point of view; understanding
  • sadness, time of sadness
  • part of day after sundown and before sunrise
  • slight difference; shading
  • ghost; figment of the imagination
  • scene, background
  • protection, habitat
  • hint, trace
  • evidence; small bit
  • severe
  • sober
  • deep
  • colorless
  • dull
  • secret
  • intelligent
  • depressing
  • sullen
  • dim
  • blind
  • brave
  • resolute
  • limited
  • strong
  • thick
  • hard
  • opaque
  • shady
  • serious
  • heavy
  • blank
  • bold
  • burly
  • cloudy
  • darkish
  • drab
  • dreary
  • expressionless
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • hefty
  • laden
  • monotonous
  • murky
  • out of focus
  • overcast
  • pervasive
  • ponderous
  • rich
  • roaring
  • solemn
  • spirited
  • stern
  • tenebrous
  • unwieldy
  • upsetting
  • bleak
  • cumbersome
  • dire
  • discouraging
  • dismal
  • dusky
  • extensive
  • faded
  • fuzzy
  • glum
  • grave
  • grim
  • hazy
  • hollow
  • husky
  • illuminated
  • joyless
  • muddy
  • muffled
  • ominous
  • onerous
  • pale
  • profound
  • retarded
  • sad
  • shadowy
  • smart
  • somber
  • swarthy
  • tiresome
  • turbid
  • unhappy
  • unintelligent
  • urgent
  • weighty
  • all
  • huge
  • hidden or covered
  • sunny, clear (weather)
  • hazy; darkened
  • unlively, uninteresting
  • clumsy, awkward
  • lack of light
  • determined, strong-willed
  • extending very far, usually down
  • discouraging, upsetting
  • terrible, ominous
  • bleak, dreary, gloomy
  • gloomy, lifeless
  • dark-hued; murky
  • bleached; used
  • serious; gloomy
  • hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance
  • difficult, exhausting
  • having great weight
  • big, bulky
  • empty, hollowed out
  • bulky
  • loaded down
  • not heavy
  • small in amount, content
  • funny, cheery
  • all the same, remaining the same
  • dark and cloudy
  • quietened
  • gloomy, obscure
  • menacing, foreboding
  • difficult; requiring hard labor
  • light in color or effect
  • intellectual, thoughtful
  • full in color or sound
  • unfortunate, distressing
  • hidden, unrevealed
  • somber, humorless
  • calm, peaceful; dull
  • quiet, serious
  • lively, vivacious
  • forceful on the senses
  • dark-complexioned
  • dark, ominous
  • concentrated, dense
  • irritating, exasperating
  • dangerous, threatening
  • awkward, bulky
  • needing immediate attention
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Etymology

2. light

noun. [‘ˈlaɪt’] any device serving as a source of illumination.

Etymology

  • light (English)
  • leoht (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • light (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lighten (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lihtan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

3. light

adjective. [‘ˈlaɪt’] of comparatively little physical weight or density.

Etymology

  • light (English)
  • leoht (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • light (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lighten (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lihtan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

4. light

noun. [‘ˈlaɪt’] a particular perspective or aspect of a situation.

Etymology

  • light (English)
  • leoht (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • light (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lighten (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lihtan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

5. light

verb. [‘ˈlaɪt’] make lighter or brighter.

Etymology

  • light (English)
  • leoht (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • light (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lighten (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lihtan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

6. light

noun. [‘ˈlaɪt’] the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light.

Etymology

  • light (English)
  • leoht (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • light (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lighten (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lihtan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

7. light

verb. [‘ˈlaɪt’] begin to smoke.

Etymology

  • light (English)
  • leoht (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • light (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lighten (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lihtan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

8. light

adjective. [‘ˈlaɪt’] (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent.

Etymology

  • light (English)
  • leoht (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • light (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lighten (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lihtan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

9. light

noun. [‘ˈlaɪt’] an illuminated area.

Etymology

  • light (English)
  • leoht (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • light (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lighten (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lihtan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

10. light

noun. [‘ˈlaɪt’] a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination.

Etymology

  • light (English)
  • leoht (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
  • light (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lighten (Middle English (1100-1500))
  • lihtan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))

Antonyms for (noun) light

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

Antonyms: dark, darkness

Definition: absence of light or illumination

Antonyms for (verb) light

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 for (adj) light

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

Antonyms: unlighted, unlit

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

Antonyms: difficult, hard

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

Antonyms: good, well

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

Antonyms: fat, fatty

Definition: containing or composed of fat


Main entry: light

Definition: easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned

Usage: a light diet


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


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

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