Lit

Definition: Lit

Lit

Adjective

1. Provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell".

2. Set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Slang

Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Lit

Crosswords: Lit

French (bed, lair), Portuguese (Italian lira), Scottish (porridge).

I wanted to see inside so I lit a Q-Tip (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

When the days grew short, all across the land, huge bonfires were lit. Oh, there was a marvelous celebration (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers; writing credit: Debra Hill; John Carpenter)

The candles are lit, the band is playing, and as the force-shielded dome above us slides apart, revealing a dark and sullen sky, hung with the ancient light of livid, swollen stars, I can see that we are in for a fabulous evening's apocalypse (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

Put it in your mouth, lit it up and you're gonna get your fix (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth)

But there is, unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit a Darkside (Tales from the Darkside; writing credit: Franco Amurri; Clive Barker)

My name's lit up on the prow (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC)

Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way (Hotel California; performing artist: EAGLES)

The fuse is lit and I'm about to go boom (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)

And then the little boy's face lit up with such naked joy (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

Got me lit like a candlestick (You Make Me Sick; performing artist: Pink)

You're trailer trash when you lit a match in the bathroom, and your house exploded right off its wheels. (references; author: unknown)

Le Ciel de lit (1974)

Les Confidences d'un lit trop accueillant (1973)

Le Lit de la vierge (1969)

All Lit Up (1920)

Comme on fait son lit on se couche (1903)

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Books

• A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance Portrait of an Age (reference)

• Don't Count the Candles: Just Keep the Fire Lit! (reference)

• Lit from Within: Tending Your Soul for Lifelong Beauty (reference)

• Lit Life (reference)

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Periodicals

• Lit (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Genius Who Lit the World (reference)

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Shown are two surgeons performing an operation. The operating site is dramatically lit, silhouetting the figures. Various images are included. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Though the brightest supernova in four centuries lit up the southern sky almost exactly 10 ... Credit: NASA.

Low lit rock formation along the John Day River. Credit: John Craig.

Silhoutted rocks and sun lit rocks above the John Day River. Credit: John Craig.

[Professor E. von Behring] / Fotograv. Gen. Stab. Lit. Anst. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Man with bag approaching man at table lit by candelabra. Credit: Library of Congress.

We lit three matches one by another, well's we could in the rain. Credit: Library of Congress.

Night view of Broad Street with lit tower of City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Bucareli promenade / C. Castro, del. y lito. ; lit. de Debray editor. México, Portal del Coliseo Viejo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chevy Chase, Maryland. Sign at the Harper's tourist home, just over the district line in Maryland, lit up in the evening to attract motoring guests. Most guests are Washington workers who stay there until they find an apartment. It costs two dollars to tw. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The candle lit up her face

They lit their cigarettes and turned to the right

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Health

By inhaling, the smoker can get nicotine to the brain very rapidly with every puff. A typical smoker will take 10 puffs on a cigarette over a period of 5 minutes that the cigarette is lit. Thus, a person who smokes about 1-1/2 packs (30 cigarettes) daily, gets 300 "hits" of nicotine to the brain each day. These factors contribute considerably to nicotine's highly addictive nature. (references)

Children

Russia

According to a 1998 Human Rights Watch report, many children with disabilities in institutions are confined to beds around the clock or to rooms that are lit, heated, and furnished inadequately. (references)

Economic History

Serbia and Montenegro

Serb animosity against the Hapsburgs reached a climax on June 28, 1914, when the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo by a Bosnian Serb, Gavrilo Princip--the spark that lit the powder keg of World War I. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Cars should always be parked in well lit, secure parking lots. (references)

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Expressions using "lit": lit up ♦ wagon lit. Additional references.

Beginning with "lit": lit-up.

Ending with "lit": brightly-lit, candle-lit, flood-lit, gas-lit, half-lit, ill-lit, lamp-lit, neon-lit, red-lit, well-lit.

Containing "lit": About-to-be-ex-lit-ed, warmly-lit-scene.

Albanian

pr dhe pp e foljes light, i dehur (boozy, crocked, drunk, drunken, elevated, exhilarated, far gone, going far, groggy, inebriate, jagged, muzzy, oiled, pissed, potted, queer, screwed up, screwy, sozzled, tanked). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أشعل (burn, enkindle, fan the flame, fire, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, light up, rekindle, switch on, torch, turn on). (various references)

Bulgarian 

светнал (alight, lambent, radiant), осветен (consecrate, dedicated, illuminated, lighted, sanctified), пиян (cockeyed, drunk, drunken, incapable, inebriate, intoxicated, jagged, juiced, loaded, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, queer, ripe, screwed, screwy, shot, slaughtered, soused, stoned, tanked, tight, under the table, wet), пийнал (blotto, exhilarated, fresh, glorious, groggy, half seas over, mellow, merry, muzzy, rocky, sprung, tipsy, vinous). (various references)

Chinese 

点燃了. (various references)

Czech

min.èas i příè.min. od light. (various references)

Danish

fuldt belyst objekt (fully lit object), afspaerringslys,blinklys og belysning af tavler skal drives elektrisk (flashing/intermittent/light systems and traffic signs are lit by electricity, lights marking an obstruction). (various references)

Dutch

waarschuwingslichten,oranje knipperlichten en de verlichting van verkeersborden dienen electrisch te worden bediend (flashing/intermittent/light systems and traffic signs are lit by electricity, lights marking an obstruction), volledig verlicht object (fully lit object). (various references)

Farsi 

زمان گذشته فعلthgil . (various references)

Finnish

täysin valaistu kohde (fully lit object). (various references)

French

mettre le feu, allumai, allumés, allumée, allumèrent, alluma, éclairer (light, light up, lighten). (various references)

German

erleuchtete (enlightened, illumed), entzündete (ignited), angezündet (kindled). (various references)

Greek 

φωτίζω (illuminate, illumine, light, lighten, shed light on), αόρ. του light, ανάβω (go on 1, go on 2, ignite, kindle, light, light up, switch on, turn on). (various references)

Hebrew 

מואר (alight, light), מבוער (burnt, ignited, lighted). (various references)

Hungarian

liter (liter, litre), megvilágított (light), meggyújt (ignite, inflame, kindle, light, to ignite, to inflame, to kindle, to light, to prime), irodalom (classics, letters, literature), begyújt (ignite, prime, to light, to prime, to start up). (various references)

Indonesian

sulut. (various references)

Italian

le delimitazioni luminose dei cantieri stradali,i segnali luminosi lampeggianti e l'illuminazione dei cartelli segnaletici devono essere alimentati elettricamente (flashing/intermittent/light systems and traffic signs are lit by electricity, lights marking an obstruction), oggetto completamente in luce (fully lit object), acceso (aglow, alight, bright, lit up, on). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

門火 , 枝葉末節 (lit branches and leaves, unessentials, unimportant details), 明明 (brightly lit, lit up), 明々 (brightly lit, lit up), 大文字 (huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on 16 Aug each year, large characters, thecharacter "dai" meaning "big", upper case letters), コスト効率 (bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights, cockatrice, Cocker spaniel, cockney, cockpit, cockroach, cook, coq d'or, cosmetic, cosmetic lens, cosmetics, cosmetology, cosmic, cosmology, cosmonaut, cosmopolis, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, cosmos, cost effectiveness, costume play, cottage, cotton, cox, faucet, glass, Kodak, rough play, spigot, tap). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かどび, あかあか (bright, bright red, brightly lit, lit up), コズミックボーリング (bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights), だいもんじ (huge character "dai" formed by fires lit on the side of a mountain in Kyoto on 16 Aug each year, large characters, thecharacter "dai" meaning "big", upper case letters). (various references)

Korean 

점화했다. (various references)

Manx

foaddit (kindled). (various references)

Pig Latin

itlay.(various references)

Portuguese

objecto totalmente iluminado (fully lit object), coroa luminosa:luz amarela intermitente;-:iluminação dos painéis de sinalização.As coroas luminosas,as luzes intermitentes e a iluminação dos painéis de sinalização devem ser alimentadas por uma r (flashing/intermittent/light systems and traffic signs are lit by electricity, lights marking an obstruction). (various references)

Romanian

luminat (alight, enlightened, illumination, lighted, lightsome, luminous), trecut şi participiu trecut de la light. (various references)

Russian 

освещенный (spotlit), зажигать освещенный, литерал (literal). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skraćenica za literature, proš. vreme i particip od light. (various references)

Spanish

pret y pp de light. (various references)

Swedish

tänt, tände, belyst (light). (various references)

Turkish

sarhoş (bacchant, beery, besotted, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, boozed, boozer, boozy, canned, cockeyed, corked, drunk, drunkard, drunken, fried, groggy, high, intoxicated, jagged, lit up, loaded, nappy, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, queer, screwed, sloshed, smashed, sodden, sot, sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stewed, stiff, stinking, stinko, stoned, tanked, tight, under the influence, under the influence of drink, under the weather, well oiled, winy, woozy, zonked), küfelik (blind drunk, dead drunk, lit up, shellac, sottish, stewed, stinking, stinko, well oiled). (various references)

Turkmen 

яagty (well lit). (various references)

Ukrainian

спальний вагон (sleeper, wagon lit). (various references)

tanu-perethanãm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lit": litai, litanies, litany, litas, litchi, litchis, lite, liter, literacies, literacy, literal, literalism, literalisms, literalist, literalistic, literalists, literalities, literality, literalization, literalizations, literalize, literalized, literalizes, literalizing, literally, literalness, literalnesses, literals, literarily, literariness, literarinesses, literary, literate, literately, literateness, literatenesses, literates, literati, literatim, literation, literations, literator, literators, literature, literatures, literatus, liters, litharge, litharges, lithe, lithely. (additional references)

Words ending with "lit": alit, backlit, candlelit, clit, daylit, firelit, flit, floodlit, gaslit, mislit, moonlit, overlit, presplit, relit, resplit, skylit, slit, split, spotlit, starlit, sunlit, tallit, twilit, underlit, unlit, unsplit, uplit, whatchamacallit. (additional references)

Words containing "lit": abilities, ability, abnormalities, abnormality, abolition, abolitionary, abolitionism, abolitionisms, abolitionist, abolitionists, abolitions, absorbabilities, absorbability, acceptabilities, acceptability, accessibilities, accessibility, accountabilities, accountability, acrolith, acroliths, actabilities, actability, actinolite, actinolites, actualities, actuality, adaptabilities, adaptability, addressabilities, addressability, adjustabilities, adjustability, admirabilities, admirability, admissibilities, admissibility, adoptabilities, adoptability, adorabilities, adorability, advisabilities, advisability, aerolite, aerolites, aerolith, aeroliths, affabilities, affability, affectabilities, affectability. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Blitt, Dlitt, elbit, elitt, ility, ilt, iltf, iltn, Iltr, lakt, latt, lawt, laxt, lct, leit, lety, liat, lic, lict, lieto, ligt, ligtu, liht, liii, lik, limt, lio, lipt, liq, Lir, lish, lita, lith, liti, litil, Lito, litr, lits, litt, litta, litu, Litva, lity, litz, Litzi, liu, liut, liuti, liuto, liv, liw, lix, liy, liz, lizt, Lizti, loit, lst, lt, lte, ltin, Ltis, lty, Luit, lut, lxi, lyf, lysh, lyt, olit, ulit, Ulti. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: til.

-1 letter: it, li, ti.

+1 letter: alit, clit, flit, gilt, hilt, jilt, kilt, lati, lift, lilt, lint, list, lite, lits, litu, loti, milt, silt, slit, tail, tali, tile, till, tils, tilt, tirl, toil, wilt.

+2 letters: alist, atilt, blite, blitz, built, clift, clipt, clits, culti, elint, elite, filet, filth, fitly, flint, flirt, flite, flits, gilts, glint, glitz, guilt, hilts, inlet, islet, istle, ixtle, jilts, kilts, kilty, laith, laity, lathi, legit, licht, licit, lifts, light, lilts, limit, lints, linty, lirot, lists, litai, litas, liter, lithe, litho, litre, lotic, lytic, milts, milty, pilot, plait, quilt, relit, silts, silty, slipt, slits, spilt, split, stile, still, stilt, styli, tails, telia, telic, teloi, thill, thiol, thirl, tical, tidal, tilak, tilde, tiled, tiler, tiles, tills, tilth, tilts, tirls, title, toile, toils, trail, trial, trill, triol, tulip, twill, twirl, unlit, until, uplit, utile, vital, volti, wilts.