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

Matched Categories

1. • Atmospheric Electricity
   • Flash

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1. List of paraphrases for "lightning":

   flash, thunderbolt, lightening, lightyear, thunder

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1. Clint Eastwood:

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

2. President Barack Obama:

   While he was seen by his fiercest critics as a partisan lightning rod, that's not the prism through which Ted Kennedy saw the world, nor was it the prism through which his colleagues saw Ted Kennedy.

3. Mark Twain:

   The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

4. Steven Stamkos:

   Whoever had Tampa Bay Lightning money line down 6-3, he’s probably pretty happy right, i don’t know how to explain that one. That was a weird game.

5. 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.