Encounter
Encounter verb - To come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face.
Usage example: quite unexpectedly encountered our next-door neighbor while vacationing in Europe
Light and encounter are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Light" instead a verb "Encounter".
Nearby Words: encountered, encountering
How words are described
| similar | similar encounter | similar light |
| normal | normal encounter | normal light |
| direct | direct encounter | direct light |
| single | single encounter | single light |
| Other adjectives: romantic, little, bad, interesting, new, early, possible, mysterious, strange, last, tactical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In Kingdom Hearts 3D, Riku's first encounter with the Commantis in The Grid takes place while he's riding a light cycle and alternates between him chasing it and it chasing him, using the cycle's guns or light ribbons to damage it respectively.
Source: High Speed Battle -
Purple Is Powerful: Inverted as Indigo is actually the first and thus weakest of the light monsters the Gems encounter, and the actual Purple light doesn't even put up a fight before Steven recaptures it in the Prism.
Source: Video Game / Attack the Light -
Light Is Not Good: Throughout the game, you will encounter the Gehligrukai enemies, which are shaped like angels, but acts just as nasty as the other enemies.
Source: Video Game / Copy Kitty
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Light or Encounter. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/encounter/light.
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