borrowed light's Usage Examples:

number of rooms have no direct external windows, relying instead on borrowed light from the central atrium.

Wood accused the Society of Science, Letters and Art of needing the "borrowed light" of the Royal Society of Arts, after the SSLA sold its own Fellowships.

will there be, unless carrying upon it the mark of a secondary and borrowed light.

Those who idolise "facts" never notice that their idols only shine in a borrowed light.

Synonyms:

corona; counterglow; candle flame; glowing; lamplight; sunlight; firelight; friar's lantern; radiance; moonshine; sunshine; electromagnetic spectrum; gaslight; torchlight; actinic radiation; scintillation; daylight; ray; ignis fatuus; fluorescence; streamer; starlight; glow; incandescence; shaft of light; will-o'-the-wisp; shaft; beam of light; irradiation; half-light; sun; light beam; visible radiation; jack-o'-lantern; visible light; meteor; shooting star; moonlight; candlelight; Moon; twilight; luminescence; actinic ray; gegenschein; beam; ray of light;

Antonyms:

dead; inanimateness; dysphemism; euphemism; misconstruction;