Word Meanings - BLIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

as E. bleak. The meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. blasts vegetables, blights

Additional info about word: BLIGHT

as E. bleak. The meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. blasts vegetables, blights corn and fruit, and is sometimes injurious even to man. Woodward. 2. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects. Seared in heart and lone and blighted. Byron.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLIGHT)

• Blast Blight
• shrivel
• destroy
• wither
• Blast
• Breeze
• efflation
• explosion
• blight
• burst
• blaze
• frustration
• destruction
• squall
• gale
• tempest
• hurricane
• affiliation
• Calamity
• Disaster
• misfortune
• mishap
• catastrophe
• misadventure
• trouble
• visitation
• affliction
• reverse
• Curse
• Malediction
• execration
• imprecation
• denunciation
• anathema
• bane
• Pest
• Plague
• nuisance
• curse
• annoyance
• bone
• scourge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BLIGHT)

• Restore
• expand
• swell
• Cohere
• hold
• stand
• Bless
• Order
• arrange
• place
• collocate
• range
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to BLIGHT)

• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• ANATHEMATISM
  Anathematization. We find a law of Justinian forbidding anathematisms to be pronounced against the Jewish Hellenists. J. Taylor.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• NUISANCE
  That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. Note: Nuisances are public when they annoy citizens in general; private, when they affect individuals only. (more info) nocentia guilt, fr. nocere to hurt, harm;
• TEMPESTIVE
  Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. Heywood. -- Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv.
• VISITATION
  The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• SPANKING BREEZE
  a strong breeze.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.