'alight' definitions:
Definition of 'alight'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "houses on fire" [syn: ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), on fire(p)]
verb
verb
Come down; "the birds alighted" [syn: alight, climb down]
Synonyms of 'alight'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablaze,
- afire,
- aflame,
- aflicker,
- aglow,
- ardent,
- bathed with light,
- bespangled,
- blazing,
- bright,
- brightened,
- burning,
- candent,
- candescent,
- candlelit,
- climb down,
- comburent,
- come down,
- come in,
- come to land,
- conflagrant,
- crash-land,
- debark,
- debus,
- deplane,
- descend,
- detrain,
- disembark,
- disemplane,
- dismount,
- ditch,
- dock,
- downwind,
- drop,
- drop anchor,
- effulgent,
- enlightened,
- fall,
- fiery,
- firelit,
- flagrant,
- flaming,
- flaring,
- flickering,
- fulgent,
- fuming,
- gaslit,
- get down,
- get off,
- glowing,
- go ashore,
- guttering,
- ignescent,
- ignited,
- illuminated,
- in a blaze,
- in a glow,
- in flames,
- incandescent,
- inflamed,
- irradiate,
- irradiated,
- kindled,
- lamplit,
- land,
- lanternlit,
- level off,
- light,
- lighted,
- lightened,
- lit,
- lit up,
- live,
- living,
- luminous,
- make a landfall,
- make land,
- make port,
- moonlit,
- moor,
- on fire,
- overshoot,
- pancake,
- perch,
- put in,
- put into port,
- reach land,
- reeking,
- refulgent,
- roost,
- scintillant,
- scintillating,
- set down,
- settle,
- settle down,
- sit down,
- smoking,
- smoldering,
- spangled,
- sparking,
- star-spangled,
- star-studded,
- starlit,
- studded,
- sunlit,
- talk down,
- tie up,
- tinseled,
- touch down,
- tumble,
- unboat,
- unextinguished,
- unhorse,
- unquenched,
- upwind