very-light

1. 1.

   a colored flare fired from a Very pistol

   SynonymsVery light

   Broaderflare

Questions about very-light

What does very-light mean?

very-light means "a colored flare fired from a Very pistol".

How many syllables are in very-light?

very-light has 3 syllables: ve-ry--light. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for very-light?

Close synonyms include Very light. 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 very-light a common word?

very-light 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.