Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to daylight
Participle: daylighted; daylit
Gerund: daylighting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | daylight |
| you | daylight |
| he;she;it | daylights |
| we | daylight |
| you | daylight |
| they | daylight |
Perfect
| I | have daylighted; daylit |
| you | have daylighted; daylit |
| he;she;it | has daylighted; daylit |
| we | have daylighted; daylit |
| you | have daylighted; daylit |
| they | have daylighted; daylit |
Past
| I | daylighted; daylit |
| you | daylighted; daylit |
| he;she;it | daylighted; daylit |
| we | daylighted; daylit |
| you | daylighted; daylit |
| they | daylighted; daylit |
Pluperfect
| I | had daylighted; daylit |
| you | had daylighted; daylit |
| he;she;it | had daylighted; daylit |
| we | had daylighted; daylit |
| you | had daylighted; daylit |
| they | had daylighted; daylit |
Future
| I | will daylight |
| you | will daylight |
| he;she;it | will daylight |
| we | will daylight |
| you | will daylight |
| they | will daylight |
Future Perfect
| I | will have daylighted; daylit |
| you | will have daylighted; daylit |
| he;she;it | will have daylighted; daylit |
| we | will have daylighted; daylit |
| you | will have daylighted; daylit |
| they | will have daylighted; daylit |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | daylight |
| you | daylight |
| he;she;it | daylight |
| we | daylight |
| you | daylight |
| they | daylight |
Perfect
| I | have daylighted; daylit |
| you | have daylighted; daylit |
| he;she;it | have daylighted; daylit |
| we | have daylighted; daylit |
| you | have daylighted; daylit |
| they | have daylighted; daylit |
Imperfect
| I | daylighted; daylit |
| you | daylighted; daylit |
| he;she;it | daylighted; daylit |
| we | daylighted; daylit |
| you | daylighted; daylit |
| they | daylighted; daylit |
Pluperfect
| I | had daylighted; daylit |
| you | had daylighted; daylit |
| he;she;it | had daylighted; daylit |
| we | had daylighted; daylit |
| you | had daylighted; daylit |
| they | had daylighted; daylit |
Conditional
Present
| I | would daylight |
| you | would daylight |
| he;she;it | would daylight |
| we | would daylight |
| you | would daylight |
| they | would daylight |
Perfect
| I | would have daylighted; daylit |
| you | would have daylighted; daylit |
| he;she;it | would have daylighted; daylit |
| we | would have daylighted; daylit |
| you | would have daylighted; daylit |
| they | would have daylighted; daylit |
Imperative
| you | daylight |
| we | Let's daylight |
| you | daylight |
Verbs similar to 'daylight'
alight,
delight,
gaslight,
adight,
aright,
backlight,
belight,
blight,
deweight,
dight,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English daye-lighte, dey liȝht, dailiȝt, day-liht, dai-liht (also as days lyȝt, daies liht), equivalent to day + light. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deegeslucht, Daisljoacht (“daylight”), West Frisian deiljocht (“daylight”), Dutch daglicht (“daylight”), German Tageslicht (“daylight”).
Sample Sentences
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[…] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable. [1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 7”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC:]
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[…] she was not looking at the daylit, sunny world which she so wanted to see. [1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, Collins, published 1998:]
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The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
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Tunnels were enlarged or daylighted and clearances generally greatly improved. [1964 October, “Letters: A US lesson in high-capacity freight stock”, in Modern Railways, page 233:]
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But I find that we have a large number of service wives who are daylighting. Some of them are not only working in the evening, but also during the day. [1965, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Military Pay Increase: Hearings..., page 81:]