Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
- 2intransitive verb
To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
- 3intransitive verb
To come or chance (upon).
- 4adjective
Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
- 5verb
come down
"the birds alighted"
- 6verb
to come to rest, settle
"Misfortune lighted upon him"
- 7adjective
lighted up by or as by fire or flame
"forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"
"even the car's tires were aflame"
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