lightfast

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
17
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈlaɪtfæst/ (US)

Definition of lightfast

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Resistant to fading.
    “Verdigris is lightfast in oil paint, as numerous examples of fifteenth-century paintings show.”
    “Some ink-and-paper combinations are more lightfast than others, and the resulting prints are more fade-resistant.”
    “Tara, a gallotannin, is often quoted as being the most lightfast vegetable tannin and makes very pale coloured leather.”
    “The blue, or cyan, is the most lightfast ink used in the printing process, so it lasts the longest. That blue, incidentally, is the phthalocyanine blue pigment. You can easily test to determine whether any material is lightfast.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From light + fast. Compare Icelandic litfast (“colourfast”).

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