Synonyms for alight
əˈlaɪtalight

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1. alight

   Synonyms:
   perch, drop, descend, dismount

   Antonyms:
   mount, ascend, spring, soar, start

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1. ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), on fire(p)verb

   lighted up by or as by fire or flame

   "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "houses on fire"

   Antonyms:
   unlighted, unlit

2. alight, light, perchverb

   to come to rest, settle

   "Misfortune lighted upon him"

   Synonyms:
   fire up, get down, ignite, illumine, illuminate, dismount, perch, get off, climb down, rest, light up, fall, light, unhorse, roost, illume

   Antonyms:
   unlit, unlighted

3. alight, climb downverb

   come down

   "the birds alighted"

   Synonyms:
   perch, climb down, light

   Antonyms:
   unlit, unlighted

Matched Categories

1. • Descend
   • Land

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1. alightverb

   Synonyms:
   stop or rest (after flight)

2. alightverb

   Synonyms:
   dismount, descend, get down

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1. alightverb

   Synonyms:
   dismount

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1. List of paraphrases for "alight":

   lit

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How to use alight in a sentence?

1. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

   Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

2. Zeg Choudhry:

   Oil is the major drag at the moment. In a normal environment, when we see China data as good as what we had over the weekend, that would set the market alight, the pressure on crude is the noose around our neck at the moment.

3. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

   Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

4. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

   Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

5. Henry David Thoreau:

   I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.