Word Meanings - LIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To descend; to light.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIGHTEN)

• Alleviate
• Lighten
• lessen
• assuage
• mitigate
• soothe
• moderate
• relieve
• remit
• diminish
• Rarefy
• Expand
• lighten
• attenuate
• sublimate

Related words: (words related to LIGHTEN)

• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• LESSENER
  One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
• MODERATE
  Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree
• RAREFY
  To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
• SUBLIMATE
  elevate, fr. sublimis high: cf. F. sublimer. See Sublime, a., and cf. 1. To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. 2. To refine and exalt; to heighten; to
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• RELIEVEMENT
  The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
• MODERATELY
  In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller.
• REMITTEE
  One to whom a remittance is sent.
• DIMINISHABLE
  Capable of being diminished or lessened.
• REMITTAL
  A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits. Swift.
• DIMINISHMENT
  Diminution. Cheke.
• REMITMENT
  The act of remitting, or the state of being remitted; remission. Disavowing the remitment of Claudius. Milton.
• ASSUAGEMENT
  Mitigation; abatement.
• ATTENUATE
  1. To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies. 2. To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically:
• REMITTITUR
  A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages. A sending back, as when a record is remitted by a superior to an inferior court. Wharton.
• REMITTENT
  Remitting; characterized by remission; having remissions. Remittent fever , a fever in which the symptoms temporarily abate at regular intervals, but do not wholly cease. See Malarial fever, under Malarial.
• SUBLIMATED
  Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified. whose weight best suits a sublimated strain. Dryden.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• HEREMITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
• INLIGHTEN
  See ENLIGHTEN
• PENTREMITES
  A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.
• HEREMIT; HEREMITE
  A hermit. Bp. Hall.
• EREMITISM
  The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.