Definitions For Light

noun

  • Any device serving as a source of illumination
  • A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
  • The visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures
  • Merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
  • The quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light
  • Public awareness
  • Mental understanding as an enlightening experience
  • A particular perspective or aspect of a situation
  • A visual warning signal
  • An illuminated area
  • A divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul
  • A person regarded very fondly
  • (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation
  • Having abundant light or illumination
  • A condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination

verb

  • Make lighter or brighter
  • Start or maintain a fire in
  • Begin to smoke
  • Alight from (a horse)
  • To come to rest, settle
  • Fall to somebody by assignment or lot
  • Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat

adjective

  • Characterized by or emitting light
  • (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
  • Of comparatively little physical weight or density
  • Psychologically light; especially free from sadness or troubles
  • Not great in degree or quantity or number
  • (physics, chemistry) not having atomic weight greater than average
  • Of little intensity or power or force
  • Of the military or industry; using (or being) relatively small or light arms or equipment

adjective

  • Casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
  • (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency
  • (of sleep) easily disturbed
  • Demanding little effort; not burdensome
  • Having relatively few calories
  • Easily assimilated in the alimentary canal; not rich or heavily seasoned
  • Designed for ease of movement or to carry little weight
  • Moving easily and quickly; nimble
  • (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
  • Silly or trivial
  • Intended primarily as entertainment; not serious or profound
  • Having little importance
  • (used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
  • Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
  • Marked by temperance in indulgence
  • Very thin and insubstantial
  • Weak and likely to lose consciousness

adverb

  • With few burdens

Is Lights a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
11

The word Light is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Light in a Sentence

  • The landscape was bathed in light.
  • A photograph taken in low light
  • The light of the moon

Synonyms for Light

Antonyms for Lights

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