Synonyms for Lightning
ˈlaɪt nɪŋlight·ning

Princeton's WordNet

1. lightningnoun

   abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

2. lightningnoun

   the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more

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1. • Atmospheric Electricity
   • Flash

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1. List of paraphrases for "lightning":

   flash, thunderbolt, lightening, lightyear, thunder

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1. Chris Scott:

   The images of neighborhoods across Europe reduced to rubble due to wartime air raids are a lasting reminder of the destruction that can be caused by man-made explosions, but the impact of these bombs way up in the Earth's atmosphere has never been realized until now. It is astonishing to see how the ripples caused by man-made explosions can affect the edge of space. Each raid released the energy of at least 300 lightning strikes. The sheer power involved has allowed us to quantify how events on the Earth's surface can also affect the ionosphere.

2. Robert Kuttner:

   In terms of sheer experience, Brainard has punched all the tickets. It would be hard to imagine a more mainstream background, for the Wall Street allies of the Biden campaign, Brainard is ideal. As a career scholar and public official, she would presumably be less of a lightning rod for progressive critics than a Wall Street figure.

3. Zach Ward:

   It’s incredible to be a part of something that is lightning in a bottle like that.

4. Miguel de Cervantes:

   'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it.

5. Clint Eastwood:

   They say marriages are made in heaven. But so is thunder and lightning