Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: lightness
IPA transcription: [l'aɪtnəs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: lightsomeness, lightness
    Meaning: the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous
  • Synonyms: light, lightness
    Meaning: the visual effect of illumination on objects or scenes as created in pictures; "he could paint the lightest light and the darkest dark"
  • Synonyms: lightness
    Meaning: having a light color
  • Synonyms: agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness
    Meaning: the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
  • Synonyms: lightness, weightlessness
    Meaning: the property of being comparatively small in weight; "the lightness of balsa wood"
  • Synonyms: elation, high_spirits, lightness
    Meaning: a feeling of joy and pride
Usage examples
  • Terrifically large, he moved with the lightness of a winged insect.
  • All this time I had experienced little, save a sense of lightness and cold discomfort.
  • At all times she was highly tragic, devoured by remorse. Lightness of stress or behavior was far from her.
  • The town, the plant, Maxineff, were all behind him. Ahead was a goal toward which he bore with increasing lightness of heart.
  • Shape of Bullets.--Round iron bullets are worthless, except at very close quarters, on account of the lightness of the metal: for the resistance of the air checks their force extremely.
  • But, from glimpses here and there, and from the purity and lightness of the air, I judged that we were on far higher ground than any we had yet traversed, the central comb, perhaps, of the mountain-system.
  • 4), are all made of nickel-plated steel--a material in which lightness, durability and mechanical strength are most happily combined, and a material beyond suspicion as to corrosion in an alkaline electrolyte....
  • I have tried metal holders, but I much prefer the simple quill, on account of its elasticity and lightness. A little binding with waxed thread, may be put on, as shown in the sketch, to prevent the quill from splitting.
  • These depths, constantly bridged over by a structure firm enough in spite of its lightness and of its occasional oscillation in the somewhat vertiginous air, invited on occasion, in the interest of their nerves, a dropping of the plummet and a measurement of the abyss.
  • Knives.--Hunting-knife.--A great hunting-knife is a useless encumbrance: no old sportsman or traveller cares to encumber himself with one; but a butcher's knife, carried in a sheath, is excellent, both from its efficient shape, the soft quality of The steel, its lightness, and the strong way in which the blade is set in the haft.