Lighter Synonyms and Antonyms

lītər
Boat
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. barge
  2. craft
  3. keel
  4. flatboat
  5. hoy
Mechanical igniter
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. igniter
  2. light
  3. cigarette-lighter
  4. cigar lighter
  5. ignitor
  6. pipe lighter
  7. flame
Requiring little effort or exertion
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. slighter
  2. easier
Of little intensity or power or force
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. thinner
  2. sheerer
  3. daintier
  4. frothier
  5. easier
  6. airier
Antonyms:
  1. heavier
  2. weightier
(used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. clearer
  2. paler
  3. weaker
  4. cleaner
  5. fairer
  6. richer
Less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. shorter
  2. idler
  3. frothier
Antonyms:
  1. graver
  2. gloomier
Not great in degree or quantity or number
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. sparser
  2. punier
  3. slighter
  4. scantier
  5. thinner
  6. tinier
  7. weer
Antonyms:
  1. heavier
  2. greater
  3. larger
Weak and likely to lose consciousness
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. slighter
  2. fainter
  3. softer
  4. gentler
Antonyms:
  1. denser
  2. heavier
(used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. darker
  2. duskier

Words Related to Lighter

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Lighter Sentence Examples

  • It is slightly lighter than air.

  • Although they were the same shape, they were lighter, like comparing plastic beads to glass ones.

  • It was getting lighter and lighter, but the mist still hid distant objects.

  • The crowds were lighter than yesterday, due to the heavy snowfall making not only climbing difficult, but viewing a wet and laborious task.

  • The closing of the traffic made the labour of the slaves more severe, and led to the employment on the plantations of many who before had been engaged in domestic work; but the slavery of Brazil had always been lighter than that of the United States.

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