Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora. day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight, starlight, sunlight &c (luminary) 432; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light; noontide, noonday, noonday sun. glow &c v.; glimmering &c v.; glint; play of light, flood of light; phosphorescence, lambent flame. flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola. spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling &c v.; emication†, scintillation, flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration†; flame &c (fire) 382; lightning, levin†, ignis fatuus [Lat.], &c (luminary) 423. luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion [Brit.], reflection; gloss, tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence; fulgor†, fulgidity†; dazzlement†, resplendence, transplendency†; luminousness &c adj.; luminosity; lucidity; renitency†, nitency†; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination. actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography, heliography; photometer &c 445. [Science of light] optics; photology†, photometry; dioptrics†, catoptrics†. [Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur†, clear obscure, breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality. reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity. V. shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare, flare up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate, coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright &c adj.; reflect light, daze, dazzle, bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate. clear up, brighten. lighten, enlighten; levin†; light, light up; irradiate, shine upon; give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in, throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon; illume†, illumine, illuminate; relume†, strike a light; kindle &c (set fire to) 384. Adj. shining &c v.; luminous, luminiferous†; lucid, lucent, luculent†, lucific†, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent†, nitid†, lustrous, shiny, beamy†, scintillant†, radiant, lambent; sheen, sheeny; glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday, tide; cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured†. gairish†, garish; resplendent, transplendent†; refulgent, effulgent; fulgid†, fulgent†; relucent†, splendid, blazing, in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant†, meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow. bright as silver; light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as noonday, bright as the sun at noonday. actinic; photogenic, graphic; heliographic; heliophagous†. Phr. a day for gods to stoop and men to soar [Tennyson]; dark with excessive bright [Milton].