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²light

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of LIGHT

filled with much light <the light, airy room is exceptionally cheerful>

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

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

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

lacking intensity of color <we painted the walls a light blue>

Synonyms dull, dulled, faded, light, pastel, washed-out, washy

Related Words flat, lackluster, lusterless, matte (also mat or matt); dim, faint; dirty, muddy; achromatic, colorless, uncolored, undyed, unpainted, unstained; blanched, bleached, washed, white, whitened; gray (also grey), indistinct, neutral

Near Antonyms bright, brilliant, vibrant, vivid; chromatic, colored, dyed, painted, stained, tinged, tinted; colorful, motley, multicolored, polychromatic, polychrome, prismatic, rainbow, varicolored, variegated; flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, showy, splashy

Antonyms dark, deep, gay, rich

of light complexion <her light skin tends to freckle easily in the sun>

Synonyms light

Related Words ashen, ashy, pale, paled, palish, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, wan, white

Antonyms black, brunet (or brunette), dark, swart, swarthy

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