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Meanings of lightness in English
The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.
Synonyms
Examples for "value"
Examples for "value"
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Water services assets book value is about 15 million euros, he said.
2
Industry sources say these slots have a market value of £50 million.
3
The work on view is also, by the way, extraordinarily good value.
4
Tokio Marine, however, still leads the three companies combined in market value.
5
This value judgment is questionable in many important circumstances in public health.
1
However, he has taken on a more serious tone in recent days.
2
Analysts said that this could set the tone for the new year.
3
Despite Romney's new course on immigration, Ryan has taken a harder tone.
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No clear image would come, no tone of voice or remembered words.
5
You must know best. Her tone clearly said she didn't believe that.
Usage of lightness in English
1
Sometimes too much lightness: The young boys' mourning never really is addressed.
2
Having cast away the stone, she feels a new sense of lightness.
3
You grasp it; it comes away in your hands with startling lightness.
4
This will remove the acidity, and rather improve the bread in lightness.
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I felt the sudden lightness: I gripped the window casement and clung.
6
The night was filled with the peculiar lightness of an Oriental night.
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I suspected it when we first felt the lightness of the atmosphere.
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I kept going, each step easier, a lightness filling my whole body.
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And with more lightness to the script, perhaps it could really soar.
10
The lightness of cakes depends upon the ingredients being beaten well together.
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She tried to get the rhythm, the lightness, the grace of movement.
12
Elaborate affairs were decided in a moment and undertaken with extraordinary lightness.
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His voice had the unmistakable lightness of someone telling something extremely important.
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And there was a real bitterness under the lightness of his tone.
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He brings a lightness to the job that inspires quietly and firmly.
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His going had resulted in anything but lightness of heart for her.
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Translations for lightness
Russian
Lightness through the time
Lightness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common