Definition for Lightening:

• changing to a lighter color

Synonyms for Lightening:

• n.

  •lightening (noun)
  • whitening.

• v.

  •amusing (verb)
  • diverting,
  • Delighting,
  • entertaining,
  • relaxing,
  • refreshing,
  • enthralling,
  • amusing,
  • pleasing,
  • Distracting,
  • charming,
  • stimulating,
  • beguiling.
  •brightening (verb)
  • illuminating,
  • shining,
  • Brightening,
  • Burnishing,
  • illumining,
  • intensifying.
  •cheering (verb)
  • cheering,
  • inspiring,
  • comforting,
  • Gladdening,
  • heartening,
  • enlivening,
  • consoling,
  • encouraging.
  •diminishing (verb)
  • paring,
  • condensing,
  • Abbreviating,
  • contracting,
  • compressing,
  • Depleting,
  • decreasing,
  • shortening,
  • Weeding,
  • Curtailing,
  • deflating,
  • tapering,
  • eroding,
  • nipping,
  • trimming,
  • Abridging,
  • reducing,
  • diminishing,
  • Bobbing,
  • dwindling,
  • Compacting,
  • Concentrating,
  • shearing,
  • shrinking,
  • draining,
  • Cropping,
  • minimizing,
  • downgrading,
  • pruning,
  • shaving,
  • decrementing,
  • Culling,
  • Truncating,
  • clipping.
  •lightening (verb)
  • unloading,
  • easing,
  • Relieving,
  • Alleviating.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • elucidate,
  • ministration,
  • Dulling,
  • Decoloration,
  • reduction,
  • assistance,
  • Blanching,
  • alleviation,
  • brightness,
  • aid,
  • Blunting,
  • Subduement,
  • lighting,
  • Achromatization,
  • Allaying,
  • succour,
  • easement,
  • assuagement,
  • quietening,
  • mitigation,
  • Disencumbrance,
  • lulling,
  • decline,
  • mitigate,
  • clarify,
  • Quieting,
  • unburdening,
  • lighten,
  • bleach,
  • elating,
  • birth,
  • liberate,
  • clearing,
  • shine on,
  • modulation,
  • light up,
  • balm,
  • Buoying,
  • illumination,
  • palliate,
  • rest,
  • calming,
  • disburdening,
  • unlading,
  • Facilitating,
  • fading,
  • illuminate,
  • balmy,
  • help,
  • paling,
  • improve,
  • Irradiating,
  • alleviative,
  • decolorization,
  • Demulsion,
  • Disencumbering,
  • alleviate,
  • adapt,
  • diminution,
  • gleaming,
  • Mitigating,
  • tempering,
  • respite,
  • ancestry,
  • disembarrassment,
  • enlighten,
  • mollify,
  • letup,
  • comfort,
  • loosening,
  • lessen,
  • irradiation,
  • Dulcification,
  • Bleaching,
  • lightener,
  • discoloration,
  • transform,
  • reassurance,
  • letdown,
  • untaxing,
  • deadening,
  • leniency,
  • clarification,
  • Damping,
  • solace,
  • flashing,
  • Assuaging,
  • Mollifying,
  • assist,
  • alter,
  • Etiolation,
  • disengage,
  • palliation,
  • decolorizing,
  • Lightened,
  • encouragement,
  • Palliating,
  • abating,
  • release,
  • ease up,
  • consolation,
  • abatement,
  • Hushing,
  • assuage,
  • Removing,
  • Aiding,
  • absolve,
  • pacification,
  • Allayment,
  • abate,
  • brighten,
  • relieve,
  • glowing,
  • illumine,
  • exhilarate,
  • falling off,
  • relaxation,
  • remission,
  • move,
  • ease,
  • mollification,
  • enlightening,
  • illume,
  • Tranquilization,
  • softening.

Paraphrases for Lightening:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    reduction, streamlining.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    lessening, loosening, ameliorating, diminishing, minimizing, minimising, illuminating, Mitigating, Lifting, Attenuating, Facilitating, limiting, downsizing, dwindling, Assuaging, declining, relaxing, decreasing, reducing, lower, abating, moderating, defusing, Deducting, slashing, Effecting, Bridging, commuting, countering, breaking, bursting, dropping, streamlining.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    easing, alleviation, lightning, relief.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    softening, Alleviating, easing.

Homophones for Lightening:

• legitimize, locating, lactating, legitimise, lasting, lightning, liquidness, licitness, lightness, listing, legitimacy, Lucidness, lagostomus, lightheadedness, lustiness, listening, lighting.

Hyponym for Lightening:

• n.

  • event
    descent.