Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Light

Nouns
  • light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil
  • sunbeam, moonbeam
  • aurora. day
  • sunshine
  • light of day, light of heaven
  • moonlight, starlight, sunlight etc. (luminary) Gray
  • 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) Heat
  • lightning, levin, c. (luminary) [Source of light, self-luminous body.] Luminary. 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. Optical Instruments. [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.
Verbs
  • 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) Calefaction.
Adjectives
  • 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.
Phrases
  • dark with excessive bright" [Milton].