light

Roget category 420

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.2. Sensation

#420. Light

noun

light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil — sunbeam, moonbeam — aurora.
day — sunshine — light of day, light of heaven — moonlight, starlight, sunlight etc. (luminary) 432 — daylight, broad daylight, noontide light — noontide, noonday, noonday sun.
glow etc. v. — glimmering etc. v. — glint — play of light, flood of light — phosphorescence, lambent flame.
flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola.
spark, scintilla — facula — sparkling etc. v. — emication^†, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration^† — flame etc. (fire) 382 — lightning, levin^†, ignis fatuus [Lat.], etc. (luminary) 423.
luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion [Brit.], reflection — gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor — effulgence, refulgence — fulgor^†, fulgidity^† — dazzlement^†, resplendence, transplendency^† — luminousness etc. adj. — luminosity — lucidity — renitency^†, nitency^† — radiance, radiation — irradiation, illumination.
actinic rays, actinism — Roentgen-ray, Xray — photography, heliography — photometer etc. 445.
[Science of light] optics — photology^†, photometry — dioptrics^†, catoptrics^†.
[Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur^†, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality.
reflection, refraction, dispersion — refractivity.

verb

shine, glow, glitter — glister, glisten — twinkle, gleam — flare, flare up — glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate, coruscate, flash, blaze — be bright etc. adj. — reflect light, daze, dazzle, bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams — fulgurate.
clear up, brighten.
lighten, enlighten — levin^† — light, light up — irradiate, shine upon — give out a light, hang out a light — cast light upon, cast light in, throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon — illume^†, illumine, illuminate — relume^†, strike a light — kindle etc. (set fire to) 384.

adjective

shining etc. v. — luminous, luminiferous^† — lucid, lucent, luculent^†, lucific^†, luciferous — light, lightsome — bright, vivid, splendent^†, nitid^†, lustrous, shiny, beamy^†, scintillant^†, radiant, lambent — sheen, sheeny — glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian — noonday, tide — cloudless, clear — unclouded, unobscured^†.
gairish^†, garish — resplendent, transplendent^† — refulgent, effulgent — fulgid^†, fulgent^† — relucent^†, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant^†, meteoric, phosphorescent — aglow.
bright as silver — light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday.
actinic — photogenic, graphic — heliographic — heliophagous^†.

phrase

a day for gods to stoop and men to soar" [Tennyson]; dark with excessive bright" [Milton].

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