Alight
English
Pronunciation
Verb
Alight (third-person singular simple present alights, present participle alighting, simple past and past participle alighted or alit)
- (intransitive, with from) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
- Passengers are alighting from the carriage
- (intransitive, with on) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop.
- A flying bird alights on a tree
- Snow alights on a roof.
- (intransitive) To come or chance (upon).
Adjective
Alight (not comparable)
- Lit; on fire, switched on.
- The sticks were damp and wouldn't catch alight.
- (figuratively) Lit; on fire, burning.
- Her face was alight with happiness.
Thesaurus
ablaze; afire; aflame; aflicker; aglow; ardent; bathed with light; bespangled; blazing; bright; brightened; burning; candent; candescent; candlelit; climb down; comburent; come down; come in; come to land; conflagrant; crash-land; debark; debus; deplane; descend; detrain; disembark; disemplane; dismount; ditch; dock; downwind; drop; drop anchor; effulgent; enlightened; fall; fiery; firelit; flagrant; flaming; flaring; flickering; fulgent; fuming; gaslit; get down; get off; glowing; go ashore; guttering; ignescent; ignited; illuminated; in a blaze; in a glow; in flames; incandescent; inflamed; irradiate; irradiated; kindled; lamplit; land; lanternlit; level off; light; lighted; lightened; lit; lit up; live; living; luminous; make a landfall; make land; make port; moonlit; moor; on fire; overshoot; pancake; perch; put in; put into port; reach land; reeking; refulgent; roost; scintillant; scintillating; set down; settle; settle down; sit down; smoking; smoldering; spangled; sparking; star-spangled; star-studded; starlit; studded; sunlit; talk down; tie up; tinseled; touch down; tumble; unboat; unextinguished; unhorse; unquenched; upwind
