firelit
1
4.6
- adjective
:
iluminado por el fuego
- She was firelit black and warm white.
- a firelit room
Examples
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For some reason, my pulse began to race, and the firelit world of the stationhouse began to blur and waver crazily before my eyes as Field spoke of Irish Meg.
Fiction book (1990) -
Sassy and Griswold sat by their rock chimney with firelit faces.
Fiction book (2001) -
An Indian drumbeat, a chant over a firelit circle of women.
Fiction book (1996) -
A moment later, he was thrusting aside its entrance flap and stepping into her firelit domain.
Fiction book (1998) -
Squinting into the firelit darkness, the old man took a rasping breath of cold air and felt a sudden bubbling and surfacing of recent memory.
Fiction book (1992) -
The exotic, firelit world of Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera, and Shere Khan swallowed me totally.
Fiction book (1998) -
Their horses moved about their firelit grazing, bickered and shifted suddenly, rousing several heads from blankets, then quieted for a while.
Fiction book (1992) -
Even as he spoke to his hostess, he felt Alida Rikker across the firelit room; her glowing beauty and her unexplored novelty pressed up against him, and there was a relief in being presented to her at last.
Fiction book (1997) -
Even after he was gone, she saw him at meetings with bright young go-getters in silk dresses and suits, sipping toddies in firelit resorts, being shown through houses by real estate agents in elegant wool skirts slashed to the hip.
Fiction book (1998) -
As they gathered around the firelit table, the warmth created a cozy atmosphere for storytelling.
Synonyms
14
5.5
On fire or shining brightly with color
5
3.3
Lit by soft candlelight
4
6.1
Shining with light or small fire, for example candles
1
3.5
Shining very brightly like the sun
Glowing brightly as if lit by fire
Light from torches makes a place look warm with flickering shadows
Burning and producing a flame
Having enough light to see easily
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word firelit joins fire and lit, where lit is the past form of light meaning 'made bright'. So a firelit room or face is one 'made bright by a fire', giving a warm, glowing feel.