light on

Thesaurus

light ²

adjective

1. Having little weight; not heavy:

lightweight, weightless.

Idiom: light as a feather.

2. Of small intensity:

gentle, moderate, slight, soft.

3. Requiring little effort or exertion:

easy, moderate.

4. Amusing but essentially empty and frivolous:

frothy.

5. Free from care or worry:

blithe, carefree, debonair, lighthearted.

6. Marked by an absence of conventional restraint in sexual behavior; sexually unrestrained:

easy, fast, libertine, loose, wanton, whorish.

verb

To come to rest on the ground:

alight, land, set down, settle, touch down.

phrasal verb
light into

Informal. To set upon with violent force:

aggress, assail, assault, attack, beset, fall on (or upon), go at, have at, sail into, storm, strike.

Informal: pitch into.

phrasal verb
light on or upon

To find or meet by chance:

bump into, chance on (or upon), come across, come on (or upon), find, happen on (or upon), run across, run into, stumble on (or upon), tumble on.

Archaic: alight on (or upon).

Idiom: meet up with.

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Translations

accorgersi discoprire casualmente

w>light (up)on

vi +prep obj (inf) → entdecken, stoßen auf (+acc)

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