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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")
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)
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
meaning - I would want to vs. I would like to - English Language . . . 'I would like to have a brighter garden ' [usually, far from being a pipedream] 'I would like to speak to the manager ' [usually a brusque request] There are common extensions: 'I'd like to think that my parents would understand if I changed careers ' [I'd hope ] 'I'd like to see Ben do a triple Salchow!' [Fat chance]
Why does “Whip smart” come to mean “Very smart”? In my opinion, the idiom, a simile, can either refer to the quickness of the action of cracking a whip, the stings or the smarts caused by the cracking of a whip or the result of flaggelating little school boys through their schooling years to bring out the brighter side of their minds
Is the phrase “nitty-gritty” racist? - English Language Usage . . . Coverage of 'nitty-gritty' in slang dictionaries J L Lighter, Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1997) has entries for nitty-gritty as a noun and for nitty-gritty as an adjective, the former usage evidently being somewhat older than the latter:
punctuation - Is there an Oxford semicolon? - English Language . . . “Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band ; and I could see