Alight vs Aright - What's the difference?
alight | aright |
(with from) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
(with on) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop.
To come or chance (upon).
To light; light up; illuminate.
To set light to; light.
Lit, on fire, switched on.
(figuratively) Lit; on fire, burning.
Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
*, I.56:
To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
* 2003 , John Beebe, Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy :
In lang=en terms the difference between alight and aright
is that alight is to set light to; light while aright is to make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.As verbs the difference between alight and aright
is that alight is to make light or less heavy; lighten; alleviate or alight can be (with from) to spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount or alight can be to light; light up; illuminate while aright is to make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.As an adjective alight
is lit, on fire, switched on.As an adverb aright is
rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.alight
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) alighten, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) alighten, from (etyl) .Verb
- Passengers are alighting from the carriage
- A flying bird alights on a tree
- Snow alights on a roof .
Etymology 3
From (etyl) alighten, from (etyl) .Verb
Etymology 4
From (etyl) alight, from (etyl) *. See above.Alternative forms
*Adjective
(-)- The sticks were damp and wouldn't catch alight .
- Her face was alight with happiness.
Usage notes
Used only as a predicative.aright
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)- it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) arighten, .Verb
(en verb)- But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.