Light Roget’s Thesaurus §420 N. light, ray, beam, stream,
gleam,
streak, pencil,
sunbeam,
moonbeam,
aurora, day,
sunshine, light of day, light of heaven,
moonlight,
starlight, sun light,
daylight, broad daylight, noontide light,
noontide,
noonday, noonday sun,
glow,
glimmering,
glint, play of light, flood of light,
phosphorescence, lambent flame,
flush,
halo, glory,
nimbus,
aureola,
spark,
scintilla, facula,
sparkling, emication|,
scintillation,
flash,
blaze,
coruscation,
fulguration, flame,
lightning,
levin,
ignis fatuus,
&c. (luminary) 423,
luster,
sheen,
shimmer, reflexion,
reflection,
gloss,
tinsel,
spangle, brightness,
brilliancy,
splendor,
effulgence,
refulgence,
fulgor,
fulgidity,
dazzlement,
resplendence,
transplendency, luminousness,
luminosity,
lucidity, renitency|,
nitency,
radiance,
radiation,
irradiation,
illumination, actinic rays,
actinism, roentgen-ray, xray,
photography,
heliography,
photometer,
optics,
photology,
photometry,
dioptrics,
catoptrics,
chiaroscuro, clairobscur, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white,
tonality,
reflection, refraction,
dispersion, refractivity
V. shine,
glow,
glitter,
glister,
glisten,
twinkle,
gleam,
flare, flare up,
glare, beam,
shimmer,
glimmer,
flicker,
sparkle,
scintillate,
coruscate,
flash,
blaze, be bright, 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 Adj. shining, 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
Phr. "a day for gods to stoop and men to soar", "dark with excessive bright"
N. transparence,
transparency,
clarity,
translucence,
translucency,
diaphaneity,
lucidity,
pellucidity,
limpidity,
fluorescence, transillumination, translumination, transparent medium, glass, crystal,
lymph,
vitrite, water
V. be transparent, transmit light
Adj. transparent,
pellucid,
lucid,
diaphanous,
translucent, tralucent|,
relucent,
limpid, clear,
serene, crystalline, clear as crystal, vitreous,
transpicuous,
glassy,
hyaline,
hyaloid, vitreform
N. sanity, soundness,
rationality,
sobriety, # lucidity, lucid interval, senses, sober senses, right mind, sound mind, mens sana
V. be sane, retain one's senses, retain one's reason, become sane, come to one's senses, sober down, render sane, bring to one's senses,
sober Adj. sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind, sound, sound-minded,
lucid,
self-possessed,
sober,
sober-minded, in one's sober senses, in one's right mind, in possession of one's faculties
Adv. sanely
N. intelligibility, clearness,
explicitness,
lucidity,
comprehensibility,
perspicuity,
legibility, plain speaking, precision, θωνᾶντα συνετοῖσι, a word to the wise
V. be intelligible, speak for itself, speak volumes, tell its own tale, lie on the surface, render intelligible,
popularize,
simplify, clear up,
elucidate, understand,
comprehend, take, take in, catch,
grasp, follow, collect, master, make out, see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way, enter into the ideas of, come to an understanding
Adj. intelligible, clear, clear as day, clear as noonday,
lucid,
perspicuous,
transpicuous, luminous, transparent, easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible to the meanest capacity,
popularized, plain, distinct,
explicit, positive, definite,
graphic, expressive, illustrative,
unambiguous,
unequivocal, unmistakable, unconfused, legible, recognizable, obvious
Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain english
Phr. he that runs may read
