lightly armored

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   equipped with armor heavy enough to provide protection against fire from light arms

   Synonymslightly armoured

   Similararmored

Questions about lightly armored

What does lightly armored mean?

lightly armored means "equipped with armor heavy enough to provide protection against fire from light arms".

What is another word for lightly armored?

Close synonyms include lightly armoured. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lightly armored a common word?

lightly armored is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.