alight

alight is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
2. intransitive verb. To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
3. intransitive verb. To come or chance (upon).
4. adjective. Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
5. verb. come down

   "the birds alighted"

6. verb. to come to rest, settle

   "Misfortune lighted upon him"

   Synonyms: light, perch

7. adjective. lighted up by or as by fire or flame

   "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"

   "even the car's tires were aflame"

   Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare

Synonyms

light, perch, ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare

Common word forms

alights, alighted, alighten, alighting, alightment

Words from these letters

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