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Lighter vs. brighter - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Per the OED, the only link between "light" and "bright" being a synonym states that it was established c852, popular from 1600-1800, and is now obsolete The definitions and references I've found infer that lighter refers to the tone of a colour (i e , "a lighter red") versus radiance ("this lamp is brighter") or vividness ("a brighter red")
Appropriate synonym for lights brightening gently Here are some phrasal options for you I recommend using an adverb like gently Here are some phrases using adverbs that I think evoke a soft brightening:
Is there an antonym for dim synonym for lighten? (i e , the darkness of the room [was] softened = the room became less dark or brighter) Three nice (imo) examples of this use of “softened” with “darkness” (to mean less dark or brighter) found in “Google Books” include (with emphasis added): The darkness softened as dawn came sifting through the canopy of trees ”
Word usage - Dark color or bright color - English Language Usage . . . Brighter - having or reflecting elevated luminance level Lighter - having or reflecting elevated luminance level Darker - having or reflecting reduced luminance level A fresh black marker would have been better to preserve a contrast necessary for optimal legibility
word choice - Whats the difference between glinted, glittered . . . @Mari-LouA: I realize you and I are both saying the same thing However, I've seen plenty of examples where a pointed question such as yours is misconstrued as being rude and unwelcoming rather than helpful, so I decided to elaborate on why your question is in fact fair, and would help improve the question
Which is higher — hyper-, ultra- or super-? These are not English words, but Greek (hyper) and Latin (super, ultra) prepositions Hyper and super mean exactly the same thing, 'above' -- they're cognates, in fact; Greek initial S went to H, and Y was the Greek letter corresponding to Latin V (or U)
Meaning of On that note and how do you use it? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
light at the end of the tunnel earliest occurrence [Disclaimer: I know this is a language site and I have no sources to back up the following statement ] Seeing a 'film of ones life' and the tunnel with light at the end is quite common in near-death experiences, and I read in a book about the brain once that there may be neuro-biological causes for this (something about dying neurons firing in many areas amongst which the visual cortex)
Word that means the opposite of what you would expect The city is bright during the day, though conversely, it seems even brighter at night 'Conversely' could fit well, depending on how you structure the sentence Jane the teenager sent texts very often, as is typical of girls her age, though conversely, her grandmother sent even more texts than her