The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word EASE which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2023.
Lighten up crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| EASE | 41 % | 4 |
| PALE | 13 % | 4 |
| EASEOFF | 9 % | 7 |
| DIET | 7 % | 4 |
| FADE | 5 % | 4 |
| LESSEN | 4 % | 6 |
| TONEITDOWN | 4 % | 10 |
| ENHALO | 4 % | 6 |
| TAKEITEASY | 4 % | 10 |
| PUTALIDONIT | 2 % | 11 |
| GOONADIET | 2 % | 9 |
| BLEACH | 2 % | 6 |
| GIVEITAREST | 2 % | 11 |
| LEAVEN | 2 % | 6 |
| GOEASY | 2 % | 6 |
Why may EASE be the right solution?
The word "ease" can mean to make something less burdensome or to lighten up a situation. Therefore, "lighten (up)" is a synonym for "ease".
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Lighten up
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- brighten
- lighten
- loosen up
- make light of
- let one's hair down
- take it easy
- take lightly
- let oneself go
- cheer up
- put one's feet up
- joke around
- take a load off
Crossword Answer definitions
EASE noun- Ability, the means to do something, particularly:
- Comfort, a state or quality lacking unpleasantness, particularly:
- Relief, an end to discomfort, particularly:
- A convenience; a luxury.
- A relief; an easement.
- To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc.
- To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain).
- To give respite to (someone).
- To loosen or slacken the tension on a line.
- To reduce the difficulty of (something).
- To move (something) slowly and carefully.
- To lessen in severity.
- To proceed with little effort.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result EASE
More clues leading to the result PALE
- Color deficient
- Whitish in complexion
- Ashen
- Hardly rosy-cheeked
- Lighten up?
- Like Andy Warhol
- "____ Rider"
- 1985 Clint Eastward western, "____ Rider"
- Deficient in color
- Lacking color
More clues leading to the result EASEOFF
More clues leading to the result DIET
- Jenny Craig advice
- New Year's resolution, often
- Popular New Year's resolution
- High weigh sign
- Losing battle?
- Reach for the lite
- South Beach, for example
- Daily regimen
- Losing strategy
- Sugar Busters, e.g.
More clues leading to the result FADE
- Grow dimmer
- Lose color
- Weaken
- Disappear
- Hi-top haircut
- Become indistinct
- Scene ender
- Conclusion to some songs
- Curving golf shot
- Die off toward the end
More clues leading to the result LESSEN
- Diminish
- Abate
- Ebb
- Cut down on auditor's classroom assignment (6)
- Ease up, as pressure
- Pull back
- Subside
- Cut back
- Mitigate
- Let up
More clues leading to the result TONEITDOWN
More clues leading to the result ENHALO
- Circle with an aura
- Depict as an angel
- Surround with an aura
- Highlight with a high light
- Surround, as with a circle of light
- Surround, as with a glow
- Surround, as with a saintly glow
- Make saintly, perhaps
- Light from above
- Ring up?
More clues leading to the result TAKEITEASY
- Hang loose
- "Lighten up!"
- A thief said ...
- Heed a playlist entry from the Eagles
- Kick back
- "Calm down!"
- "Calm down"
- "So long!"
- "Be calm!"
- "Chill out!"
More clues leading to the result PUTALIDONIT
- "That's enough!"
- "Shut yer yapper!" (and a hint to 17-, 28-, and 47-Across)
- "Pipe down!"
- "Enough already!"
- "Stop talking!"
- "Hush!" to a hatter?
- "Stop complaining!" (and what you might do to the start of 17-, 33- or 41-Across)
- "Hush!" (and hint to how 4-, 9- and 21-Down are formed)
- "Shut your trap!" ... and, graphically, what the circled letters do
- "Shut up!"
More clues leading to the result GOONADIET
More clues leading to the result BLEACH
- Make white
- Washday need
- Whitener
- Laundry additive
- Salon staple
- Laundry liquid
- Laundry bottle
- Lighten up
- Whiten the laundry.
- Washday aid.
More clues leading to the result GIVEITAREST
More clues leading to the result LEAVEN
- Add yeast (6)
- Get the batter up?
- Raise dough?
- Add yeast
- Cause to rise
- Do what yeast does
- Give rise to?
- It gets the batter up
- Add yeast to
- It'll help your dough grow