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/ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/ · noun
A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth..
Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
It was the thought of hot July and August days, when the clouds piled up like woolly mountains, and lightnings streaked the sky.
Between 8 and 9 p.m., the recorder at a meteorological station at Harrow, Middlesex, picked up 1,470 lightning flashes within a radius of 10 to 15 miles, and observers at the station described the storm as "probably one of the most spectacular of the century."
Manny drove a few miles per hour under the speed limit, entranced by the awesome display of lightning streaking out of the clouds toward earth.
"Ruu": The adults in the village all said that children like me could calm the lightning and turn the storms into timely rain.
The lightning was hot enough to melt the sand.
That tree was hit by lightning.
Use lightning when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lightning means A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Although we did not see the lightning, we did hear the thunder.
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