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Meanings of lightness in английском
The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble.
Synonyms
Examples for "elation"
Examples for "elation"
1
We all have our particular mode of self-expression in moments of elation.
2
The elation we had felt earlier in the day was all gone.
3
Dann's first few sober years were a time of elation, she says.
4
Or do they want to share the elation of the United players?
5
They were told me by the taxidermist in a mood of elation.
1
The men were in high spirits; they talked very loudly and laughed.
2
He was in exceeding high spirits and in the utmost good humour.
3
Archie was alone, buried in the bush, yet was in high spirits.
4
The stock was in splendid condition, and we were in high spirits.
5
Our island friends were now in high spirits; all courage and alacrity.
Usage of lightness in английском
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.
5
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.
7
I suspected it when we first felt the lightness of the atmosphere.
8
I kept going, each step easier, a lightness filling my whole body.
9
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.
11
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.
13
His voice had the unmistakable lightness of someone telling something extremely important.
14
And there was a real bitterness under the lightness of his tone.
15
He brings a lightness to the job that inspires quietly and firmly.
16
His going had resulted in anything but lightness of heart for her.
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Translations for lightness
русский
Lightness through the time
Lightness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common