Alight

Quick meaning: Alight is a verb meaning (transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.

Meaning

(transitive, also figuratively, obsolete) To make less heavy; to lighten; to alleviate, to relieve.

More Meanings

1. Often followed by at, on, or upon: of something aloft: to descend and settle; to land, to lodge, to rest.
2. To come down or go down; to descend.
3. Often followed by on or upon: of a blow, something thrown, etc.: to land heavily.
4. Often followed by on or upon: to find by accident; to chance upon, to come upon.
5. To arrive.
6. To cast light on (something); to illuminate, to light up.
7. Often followed by from or off: to get off an animal which one has been riding; to dismount; to descend or exit from a vehicle; hence, to complete one's journey; to stop.

Example Sentences

He alighted from his horse.

Passengers are alighting from the carriage.

He that neuer alights off a rich Farmer or country Gentleman, till he haue drawne money from him, is called The Snaffle.

The Horſemen all alighted, and the footmen taking Don Quixote and Sancho forcibly in their Armes, they ſet them in the Court, […]

Word Forms

• alights
• alighting
• alighted
• alit
• alightest
• alightedst
• alighteth

Synonyms for alight

Depending on context, synonyms include alighten, light, disembark, debark, get out, unlight.

Antonyms for alight

Common opposites include darken, blear, caliginous, cimmerian, crepuscular, dark.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blazing, aflare, lit, lighted, burning, ablaze.

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