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extralight

extralight adjective: more lightweight than usual.

Adjective

extralight (comparative more extralight, superlative most extralight)

  1. More lightweight than usual.
  2. Lighter than a typical light typeface.
    • In England, a classification standard has been developed that contains eight weights: extralight, light, semilight, medium, semibold, bold, extrabold, and ultrabold.2014, Rob Carter, Philip B[axter] Meggs, Ben Day, Sandra Maxa, Mark Sanders, Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Edition 6), →ISBN, page 45

Forms of extralight

comparativemore extralight
superlativemost extralight

Origin of extralight

From extra- + light.

Questions about extralight

What does extralight mean?
Extralight means more lightweight than usual.
What part of speech is extralight?
Extralight is an adjective.

Words near extralight in the dictionary

  1. extralemniscal
  2. extralenticular
  3. extralesional
  4. extralexical
  5. extraligamentous
  6. extralight
  7. extralimital
  8. extralimitary
  9. extralingual
  10. extralinguistic
  11. extralinguistically

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