'Lightly' definitions:
Definition of 'lightly'
From: WordNet
adverb
Without good reason; "one cannot say such things lightly"
adverb
With few burdens; "experienced travellers travel light" [syn: lightly, light]
adverb
With little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead" [syn: lightly, softly, gently]
adverb
adverb
With indifference or without dejection; "he took it lightly"
adverb
In a small quantity or extent; "spread the margarine thinly over the meat"; "apply paint lightly" [syn: thinly, lightly] [ant: thickly]
adverb
To a slight degree; "her speech is only lightly accented"
Definition of 'Lightly'
From: GCIDE
- Lightly \Light"ly\, adv.
- 1. With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly. [1913 Webster]
- Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Swiftly; nimbly; with agility. [1913 Webster]
- So mikle was that barge, it might not lightly sail. --R. of Brunne. [1913 Webster]
- Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Without deep impression. [1913 Webster]
- The soft ideas of the cheerful note, Lightly received, were easily forgot. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 4. In a small degree; slightly; not severely. [1913 Webster]
- At the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun . . . and afterward did more grievously afflict her. --Is. ix. 1. [1913 Webster]
- 5. With little effort or difficulty; easily; readily. [1913 Webster]
- That lightly come, shall lightly go. --Old Proverb. [1913 Webster]
- They come lightly by the malt, and need not spare it. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Without reason, or for reasons of little weight. [1913 Webster]
- Flatter not the rich, neither do thou willingly or lightly appear before great personages. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Commonly; usually. [Obs.] --Bp. Fisher. [1913 Webster]
- The great thieves of a state are lightly the officers of the crown. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Without dejection; cheerfully. "Seeming to bear it lightly." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 9. Without heed or care; with levity; gayly; airily. [1913 Webster]
- Matrimony . . . is not by any to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly. --Book of Common Prayer [Eng. Ed.]. [1913 Webster]
- 10. Not chastely; wantonly. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lightly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit,
- a little,
- airily,
- arbitrarily,
- barely,
- blithely,
- by a hair,
- by an ace,
- capriciously,
- cheerfully,
- cheerily,
- easily,
- effortlessly,
- ever so little,
- exiguously,
- facilely,
- faintly,
- fancifully,
- feebly,
- flightily,
- freely,
- frivolously,
- genially,
- gladly,
- hands down,
- happily,
- hardly,
- hopefully,
- idly,
- immaterially,
- imperfectly,
- inadvertently,
- inappreciably,
- inconsequentially,
- insignificantly,
- irrepressibly,
- jauntily,
- joyfully,
- just a bit,
- like clockwork,
- like nothing,
- little,
- meagerly,
- minimally,
- minutely,
- negligently,
- negligibly,
- no sweat,
- not hardly,
- on easy terms,
- only just,
- optimistically,
- permissively,
- pettily,
- pleasantly,
- readily,
- remissly,
- scampingly,
- scantily,
- scarcely,
- shallowly,
- simply,
- skimpingly,
- slightingly,
- slightly,
- slurringly,
- smilingly,
- smoothly,
- superficially,
- swimmingly,
- tant soit peu,
- triflingly,
- trivially,
- unessentially,
- unimportantly,
- unreasonably,
- unrigorously,
- weakly,
- well,
- whimsically,
- with good cheer,
- without difficulty
Words containing 'Lightly'
- Light,
- Lighte,
- Lighted,
- Lightful,
- Lighting,
- Lightness,
- light into,
- light out,
- light up,
- lights,
- very light,
- Ancient lights,
- Barnegat Light,
- Batement light,
- Bengal light,
- Blue light,
- Bracket light,
- Bude light,
- Calcium light,
- Carbon light,
- Catoptric light,
- Cockshut light,
- Coston lights,
- Decomposition of light,
- Depolarization of light,
- Drummond light,
- Dry light,
- Earth light,
- Electrical light,
- Fan light,
- Finsen light,
- Fixed light,
- Flash light,
- Flashing light,
- Floating light,
- Floor light,
- Incandescent light,
- Light Oak,
- Light ball,
- Light barrel,
- Light cavalry,
- Light dues,
- Light eater,
- Light hand,
- Light horse,
- Light infantry,
- Light iron,
- Light keeper,
- Light metals,
- Light money,
- Light of foot,
- Light of heart,
- Light oil,
- Light purse,
- Light sails,
- Light sleeper,
- Light weight,
- Light year,
- New light,
- Northern lights,
- Pilot light,
- Polar lights,
- Red light,
- Revolving light,
- Stage lights,
- The light of the countenance,
- To bring to light,
- To come to light,
- To light a fire,
- To make light of,
- To see the light,
- To set light by,
- To walk in the light,
- Vault light,
- Watch light,
- Wax light,
- White light,
- Zircon light,
- Zodiacal light,
- anchor light,
- arc light,
- beacon light,
- beam of light,
- brake light,
- bring to light,
- city of light,
- coherent light,
- come to light,
- electric light,
- fairy light,
- feast of lights,
- festival of lights,
- first light,
- green light,
- guiding light,
- idiot light,
- indirect lighting,
- infrared light,
- inner light,
- klieg light,
- laser light,
- leading light,
- light adaptation,
- light air,
- light arm,
- light ballast,
- light beam,
- light beer,
- light bread,
- light breeze,
- light brown,
- light bulb,
- light circuit,
- light colonel,
- light company,
- light cream,
- light diet,
- light filter,
- light flyweight,
- light footed,
- light heavyweight,
- light hour,
- light intensity,
- light meter,
- light microscope,
- light middleweight,
- light minute,
- light opera,
- light pen,
- light reaction,
- light reflex,
- light second,
- light show,
- light source,
- light speed,
- light time,
- light touch,
- light unit,
- light upon,
- light welterweight,
- light within,
- lighting circuit,
- lighting fixture,
- lighting industry,
- lighting-up,
- lightly armored,
- lightly armoured,
- lights-out,
- lime light,
- make light of,
- navigation light,
- oxycalcium light,
- panel light,
- ray of light,
- rear light,
- riding light,
- room light,
- running light,
- see the light,
- shaft of light,
- shed light on,
- sheet lighting,
- signal light,
- southern lights,
- speed of light,
- stop light,
- strip lighting,
- strobe light,
- sweetness and light,
- theater light,
- traffic light,
- ultraviolet light,
- very-light,
- vigil light,
- visible light,
- warning light,
- yellow light,
- Barnegat Light, NJ,
- Incandescent light bulb,
- Light Oak, NC,
- Light carbureted hydrogen,
- Light-armed,
- Light-boat,
- Light-fingered,
- Light-foot,
- Light-footed,
- Light-handed,
- Light-headed,
- Light-headedness,
- Light-hearted,
- Light-heartedly,
- Light-heartedness,
- Light-heeled,
- Light-horseman,
- Light-legged,
- Light-minded,
- Light-mindedness,
- Light-ship,
- Light-struck,
- Light-winged,
- Light-year,
- Newtonian theory of light,
- Thorough-lighted,
- To stand in one's own light,
- Top-light,
- corpuscular theory of light,
- half-light,
- light machine gun,
- light water line,
- light whipping cream,
- light-blue,
- light-boned,
- light-colored,
- light-coloured,
- light-duty,
- light-green,
- light-haired,
- light-handedly,
- light-headedly,
- light-of-love,
- light-sensitive,
- light-skinned,
- light-tight,
- lightly-armed,
- night-light,
- primary color for light,
- primary colour for light,
- red light district,
- saint elmo's light,
- saint ulmo's light,
- trip the light fantastic,
- wave theory of light,
- well-lighted,
- Light-o'-love,
- Red-light district,
- electric-light bulb,
- light-emitting diode,
- primary subtractive color for light,
- primary subtractive colour for light,
- trip the light fantastic toe,
- Electro-magnetic theory of light,
- one-way light time,
- organic light-emitting diode,
- round-trip light time,
- blue bluish light-blue dark-blue,
- green greenish light-green dark-green