FLOODLIGHTS Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of floodlight

as in headlights

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verb

present tense third-person singular of floodlight

as in lights

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Noun

Brumbelow has found that cars with headlights rated highly by IIHS for visibility—which includes many but not all LED headlights—have 19% fewer nighttime crashes compared to cars with poor headlight visibility.

— Matt Fuchs, Time, 4 Aug. 2025

Definition of headlights

Verb

The analysis asserts that spark that lights the fire sale probably won’t emerge from European markets, but that’s not saying much.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026
Mereu’s sure hand with his actors is a saving grace, with Perrone and Maenza particularly well-cast, and DP Francesco Piras lights them to perfection while being in perfect synch with the director’s reverence for the natural world.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of lights

Verb

Another light show game is the Black Light Tumble Tower that glows in the dark.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026
In a laboratory 2 kilometers underground, a crane lowers Matt Depatie, a detector technologist, through a hatch into a white-walled cavern filled with about 7,000 tons of ultrapure water that glows as blue as wiper fluid in the light.

— James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of glows

Verb

Inside Billy’s private movie theater, the projector beams down on the back of Anderson’s head like that infamous Nicole Kidman AMC promo.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Starlink beams down broadband to consumers, governments and businesses using more than 10,000 satellites orbiting close above the Earth.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of beams

Noun

The Waldorf Astoria New York’s legendary Grand Ballroom will transform into a full-size tennis court beneath the chandeliers.

— Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Among the hotel’s many nautical touches are whaling ship murals, a map of old shipping routes covering the lobby’s ceiling, and chandeliers made of antique-style deck prisms.

— Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of chandeliers

Verb

This time around, Connect 3 returns to Camp Rock for a music challenge that ignites feuds among the competitors and campers.

— Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
Compressed gas ejects the missile from its vertical launch cell before its main engine ignites above the ship.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026

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