Antonyms for lighten uplight·en up

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1. lighten, lighten up, buoy upverb

   make more cheerful

   "the conversation lightened me up a bit"

   Synonyms:
   relieve, buoy up, lighten, brighten, buoy

2. lighten, lighten up, buoy upverb

   become more cheerful

   "after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit"

   Synonyms:
   relieve, buoy up, lighten, brighten, buoy

3. brighten, lighten up, lightenverb

   make lighter or brighter

   "The paint will brighten the room"

   Synonyms:
   lighten, clear up, buoy up, light up, brighten, relieve, clear

4. lighten, lighten upverb

   become lighter

   "The room lightened up"

   Synonyms:
   relieve, buoy up, lighten, brighten

How to use lighten up in a sentence?

1. Michael J. Gelb:

   Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

2. Marine Corps General Jim Jones:

   I think the policy is fine, i think we should lighten up a little bit about the importance of phone calls and signals that may or may not have been sent. I think policy is pretty stable and the Chinese relationship is very important.

3. Jeb Bush:

   Trump is not going to be president because he says these things that turns people off, for crying out loud, we're two days before Christmas. Lighten up man.

4. Sally Quinn:

   O'Reilly is an entertainer and everything he does is totally subjective, including his memories, to attack him is simply to increase his ratings and the sales of his phenomenally popular books. Lighten up, everybody.

5. Norman Levine:

   A lot of investors have piled into the energy sector. It's time to leave, they're going back down again. That's an unsustainable rise, investors would be wise to lighten up, if not totally exit energy stocks for now.

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