8.3.3 Light

Use this domain for words related to light.

OMC Codes: 
373 Light
Louw Nida Codes: 
14F Light
  • What words refer to light?
    light, sunshine, gleam (n), glare (n), glow (n), radiance,
  • What words refer to making light shine in a place?
    light (v), light up, illuminate,
  • What words describe something that has light shining on it?
    be light, illuminated, sunlit, moonlit, starlit, lighted, luminous,
  • What words refer to a ray of light?
    ray, beam, shaft, sunbeam, moonbeam,
  • What words refer to different kinds of light?
    daylight, sunlight, moonlight, starlight, firelight, candlelight, electric light, electromagnetic radiation, fluorescence, fluorescent light, incandescent light, infrared, lamplight, luminescence, luminescent, phosphorescence, phosphorescent, photoelectric, ultraviolet,
  • What words are used to describe light?
    candlepower, frequency, lumen, radiant, radiation, refract, short-wave, spectrum,

    • 8.3.3.1 Shine

    Use this domain for words related to a light source shining--for something to make light.

  • What words refer to a light source shining?
    shine, glow, gleam, blaze, shed light, radiate,
  • What words refer to something shining for a very short time and then becoming dark again?
    flash, flare, spark, scintillate,
  • What words refer to something shining with small points of light?
    twinkle, glitter, shimmer, flicker, glimmer,
  • What words refer to something shining brighter and dimmer again and again?
    flicker, blink,
  • What words describe something that shines dimly in the dark?
    luminous, fluorescent, glow in the dark, glimmer,

    • 8.3.3.1.1 Light source

    Use this domain for words related to a source of light--something that makes or gives light.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    6N Lights and Light Holders
  • What words refer to something that makes light?
    light, lamp, candle, arc light, beacon, chandelier, electric light, fire, fixture, flare, flashlight, flash (camera), floodlight, fluorescent light, globe, headlight, incandescent light, lamp-post, lantern, lighthouse, lighting, light source, luminary, night-light, paraffin lamp, searchlight, spotlight, street light, strobe, sunlamp, taillight, taper, torch,
  • What words describe something that produces light?
    light producing, shining,
  • What are the parts of a lamp?
    lampstand, stand, wick, chimney, bulb, light bulb, lamp shade, switch, filament, socket,
  • What are the parts of a candle?
    candlestick, wick, wax, candelabra, holder,
  • What words refer to the lights being on in a place?
    the lights are on, be lit up, ablaze,
  • What words refer to a light starting to work?
    come on,
  • What words refer to making a light start working?
    turn on, light (a candle), switch on,
  • What words refer to a light stopping?
    go out, go down, dim,
  • What words refer to making a light stop working?
    turn out, put out, turn down, switch off,
  • What words refer to not turning off the lights?
    leave the lights on,

    • 8.3.3.1.2 Bright

    Use this domain for words describing something that is bright.

  • What words describe a light that is bright?
    bright, strong, good, harsh,
  • What words describe a light that is very bright?
    blazing, brilliant,
  • What words describe a light that is so bright it hurts your eyes?
    blinding, dazzling, glare,
  • What words describe a place where there is lots of light?
    bright, light, well lit, ablaze with light,
  • What words refer to the light becoming brighter?
    get light, brighten, lighten, the light grows,

    • 8.3.3.2 Dark

    Use this domain for words describing something that is dark--a place where there is little or no light.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    14G Darkness
  • What words describe a place where there is no light?
    dark, dismal, shadowed, shaded, pitch-dark,
  • What words describe a place where there is little light?
    pale, dim, weak, poor, bad, soft, low, dull, dusky,
  • What words describe a place where there is very little light?
    unlit, dimly-lit, darkened, the half-light,
  • What words describe a place that is dark and makes you feel bad or afraid?
    gloomy, dingy, the shadows,
  • What words refer to a place becoming dark?
    get dark, darken, the light fades, dim (v), fall, go dark, be plunged into darkness,
  • What words refer to darkness?
    darkness, the dark, gloom,

    • 8.3.3.2.1 Shadow

    Use this domain for words related to a shadow--the area on the ground where the light does not shine because something is in the way. For instance if the sun
    (or another light) is shining on an object, the area behind the object is in shadow (dark).

  • What words refer to a shadow?
    shadow
  • What words refer to something blocking the light from shining on something?
    shade, cast a shadow, block the light, eclipse, overshadowing,
  • What words describe something in the shadow of something else?
    in the shade, shaded, shady, shadowy,

    • 8.3.3.3 Color

    Use this domain for words related to color.

    Louw Nida Codes: 
    79G Color
  • What words refer to color?
    color, shade, tint, hue, coloring, pigment, tincture, cast, palette, coloration, complexion, chroma, chromatic, tone,
  • What words indicate that something is a particular color?
    be red/green, be a red/reddish color, colored, tinted,
  • What words describe something that is a dark color?
    dark, deep, rich,
  • What words describe something that is a light color?
    light (adj), pale, pastel, faint, livid, lurid, pallid, pallor, pale-faced, neutral tint,
  • What words describe something that is a bright color?
    bright, brightly colored, brilliant, pure, gaudy, garish, vivid, flashy, fresh, intense, strong, hot,
  • What words describe something that is a dull color?
    dull, faded, washed out, drab, dingy, flushed, clouded, grayish, somber,
  • What words describe something, such as a photograph, that has been made with color?
    color (photograph), in color,
  • What words describe something that has no color or is black and white?
    colorless, black and white, uncolored, monochrome, achromatic, ghostly, glassy, lackluster, undyed,
  • What words refer to the intensity of a color?
    value, intensity, saturation,
  • What words refer to pure or mixed colors?
    pure, mixed, tinge, primary color, secondary color, tertiary color,
  • What words describe colors that look good together?
    go together, go with, suit you, color scheme, complimentary,
  • What words describe colors that do not look good together?
    clash,
  • What words describe someone who cannot see color?
    color-blind
  • What words refer to a color or pattern of colors used by a group of people to identify themselves?
    livery, tartan, team colors,

    • 8.3.3.3.1 White

    Use this domain for words describing something that is white.

  • What words describe something that is white in color?
    white, alabaster, albino, bleached, chalky, cream, cream-colored, creamy, eggshell, fair, ivory, lily-white, milk-white, milky, off-white, oyster white, pearl, pearly, snowy, snow-white,

    • 8.3.3.3.2 Black

    Use this domain for words describing something that is black.

  • What words describe something that is black in color?
    black, pitch black, jet-black, inky black, ebony black, black as coal, coal-black, black as pitch, black as night, night-black, henna, negro, raven,

    • 8.3.3.3.3 Gray

    Use this domain for words describing something that is gray.

  • What words describe something that is gray in color?
    gray, ashen, charcoal gray, grizzle, grizzled, grizzly, hoar, hoary, leaden, mouse-colored, mousy, muddy, slate-gray, smoky, sooty, steel-gray,

    • 8.3.3.3.4 Colors of the spectrum

    Use this domain for words describing something that is colored.

  • What words refer to all the colors arranged in the spectrum of the rainbow?
    spectrum, rainbow, prism, spectral,
  • What words describe a kind of color?
    primary color, secondary color, earth color, warm color, cool color, infrared,
  • What are the shades of red?
    red, beet-red, blood-red, blush, brick-red, cardinal, carmine, carnelian, cherry, Chinese red, claret, coral, crimson, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored, incarnadine, lobster, lobster-colored, madder, pink, puce, roan, rose, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, rouge, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet, vermilion, wine,
  • What are the shades of orange?
    orange, apricot, cadmium, carrottop, carroty, ocher, peach, salmon, tangerine,
  • What are the shades of yellow?
    yellow, amber, banana, blond, blonde, canary, chartreuse, chrome yellow, citron, cream, flaxen, gold, golden, goldilocks, jaundice, lemon, saffron, sallow, straw-colored, sulfur, tawny, terra cotta, yellow ocher, xanthous,
  • What are the shades of green?
    green, greenish, apple-green, bottle-green, chlorine, emerald, grass, grass-green, khaki, leaf-green, leek-green, lime-green, olive, pea, pea-green, peacock, sap green, sea-green, topaz, verdant, viridian,
  • What are the shades of blue?
    blue, azure, baby-blue, beryl-blue, carbuncle, cerulean, cobalt, cyan, cyanic, indigo, lapis lazuli, navy blue, Prussian blue, royal blue, sapphire, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine,
  • What are the shades of purple?
    purple, violet, amethyst, crocus, hyacinth, lavender, lilac, liver-colored, magenta, maroon, mauve, mulberry, plum, plum-colored, royal purple,
  • What are the shades of brown?
    brown, tan, beige, flesh colored, auburn, brunette, buff, chestnut, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee, dun, fawn, foxy, hazel, khaki, mahogany, ocher, russet, rust, sepia, sienna, sorrel, umber, walnut,
  • What words describe something that looks like metal?
    metallic, copper, brass, bronze, bronzed, gilded, gilt, gold, golden, platinum, silver, silvery, steely,

    • 8.3.3.3.5 Animal color, marking

    Use this domain for words related to animal colors and markings.

    Related domains: 
    1.6 Animal
  • What words are used to describe the coloring of an animal?
    russet, bay, palomino, sable, tortoise-shell,
  • What words are used to describe the markings on an animal?
    spotted, striped, camouflaged, flecked, speckled, piebald, dappled, star, blaze, brindled, calico, tabby, pinto,

    • 8.3.3.3.6 Change color

    Use this domain for words related to changing the color of something.

  • What words refer to changing the color of something?
    color (v), color something in, blacken, bleach, denigrate, dye, discolor, emblazon, imbue, ingrain, paint (v), redden, shade (v), stain, tinge, tint, add color, mix colors, tone down, whiten,
  • What words are used of something changing color?
    change color, lose its color, blush, turn pale, pale, blanch,
  • What words refer to dye being washed out of cloth?
    wash out, run,
  • What words refer to the sun changing the color of something?
    fade, bleach,
  • What words describe something whose color has changed?
    colored, discolored, bleached, dyed, faded, mantled, painted, shaded, stained, tinged, tinted,
  • What words refer to things used to change the color of something?
    paint (n), dye (n), bleach (n), food coloring, stain (n),
  • What words describe a color that does not change?
    fast,

    • 8.3.3.3.7 Multicolored

    Use this domain for words describing something that is multicolored--having many different colors.

  • What words describe something that has many different colors?
    colorful, multicolored, gaudy, garish, harlequin, multihued, many-colored, many-hued, brightly colored, variegated, polychrome, polychromatic, kaleidoscope, kaleidoscopic, play of colors, motley, pepper-and-salt, grizzled, mosaic,
  • What words describe something that is colored with lines?
    lined, striped, streaked, checkered, plaid, tartan, checked, marbled, banded, barred, cross-striped, damask,
  • What words describe something that is colored with spots?
    spotted, speckled, dotted, blotchy, dappled, mealy, mottled, pied, spotty,
  • What words describe something that is colored like a rainbow?
    rainbow-hued, iridescence, iridescent, prismatic, opalescence, opalescent, pearly,

    • 8.3.3.4 Shiny

    Use this domain for words that describe something that is shiny--when something gives back light because light is shining on it.

  • What words describe something that is shiny?
    shiny, glossy, polished, glassy, gleaming, sleek, silky, shining,
  • What words describe something that is shiny like metal?
    silvery, metallic,
  • What words describe something that is shiny like water?
    shimmering, glistening,
  • What words refer to something being shiny when light shines on it?
    shine (in the light), gleam, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, glow, shimmer, sparkle,
  • What words refer to the shiny appearance of something?
    shine, sheen, gloss, luster,
  • What words describe something that is not shiny?
    dull, matt,