Antonyms for lighter

Grammar : Adj

Spell : lahy-ter

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪ tər

Definition of lighter

Origin : "barge," late 15c., agent noun from light (adj.1), with a sense of lightening a load, or else from Dutch lichter, from lichten "to lighten, unload," on the same notion. They are used in loading or unloading ships that cannot approach a wharf.

adj illuminated
adj blond, fair
adj not heavy
adj small in amount, content
adj simple, easy
adj funny, cheery

Example sentences :

Perhaps it was some law of opposites, and she needed some one of lighter nature than her own.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Both hearts were heavy, but Mr. Brunton's was the lighter of the two.
Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder

It will be lighter now; I sha'n't mind what anybody says if you're with me, mother.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

The room was dark, but the street was lighter, because of its lamps.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

If you had, the meeting on Wednesday would have been a lighter trial to you.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

But he at once remembered that it was lighter because the moon had risen.
Extract from : « Master and Man » by Leo Tolstoy

He studied the little movie-maker over the flame of his lighter.
Extract from : « Reel Life Films » by Samuel Kimball Merwin

The lighter grey of the horizon is mirrored in the clearer blue of the sea.
Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani

Every schoolboy knows that a stone is lighter in water than in air.
Extract from : « The Monkey That Would Not Kill » by Henry Drummond

But it was all a dream, lighter than thistle-down; he knew it could never, never be.
Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola

Synonyms for lighter

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