Word Study
lit (root: light)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lit has 1 sense
- lit(n = noun.cognition) literature - the humanistic study of a body of literature; "he took a course in Russian lit" is a kind of literary study
Adjective lit has 2 senses
- lit(s = adj.all) illuminated, lighted, well-lighted - provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell"
- lit(a = adj.all) lighted - set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker"
THESAURUS
lit
ablaze, afflicted, aglow, alight, bathed with light, bent, bespangled, boiled, bombed, boozy, brightened, candlelit, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, disguised, drunk, elevated, enlightened, firelit, fried, fuddled, gaslit, half-seas over, high, illuminated, in a blaze, inebriated, irradiate, irradiated, lamplit, lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit up, loaded, lubricated, luminous, lushy, moonlit, muddled, muzzy, oiled, organized, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, potted, raddled, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused, spangled, squiffy, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, stewed, stinko, studded, sunlit, swacked, tanked, tight, tinseled
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