lit

Plural: lits

Noun

• A former monetary unit of Lithuania, equivalent to the litas.
• the humanistic study of a body of literature
  • "he took a course in Russian lit"
• Little.
• Colour; blee; dye; stain.
• Clipping of literature.

Verb

• make lighter or brighter
• begin to smoke
  • "After the meal, some of the diners lit up"
• to come to rest, settle
• cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
• fall to somebody by assignment or lot
• alight from (a horse)
• simple past and past participle of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)
• simple past and past participle of light (“alight: land, come down on”)
• To run or light (alight).
• To colour; dye.

Adjective Satellite

• provided with artificial light
  • "a brightly lit room"

Adjective

• set afire or burning
  • "a lit firecracker"

Adj

• Illuminated.
• Drunk, intoxicated; under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
• Sexually aroused, (especially) visibly so.
• Exciting, captivating; fun.
• Excellent, fantastic; cool.
• Little.

Examples

• Do we have any lit homework tonight?
• He walked down the lit corridor.
• Sometimes the shortest words, like LIT, can be the most valuable hooks in Scrabble.
• This party is gonna be lit.
• Those jeans are lit.

Synonyms

alight, dismount, fall, fire up, get down, get off, ignite, illume, illuminate, illuminated, illumine, light, light up, lighted, literature, perch, unhorse, well-lighted, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, DTF, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, ablaze, ace, admirable, adrip, aglow, aled up, all mops and brooms, amorous, aroused, arseholed, awe-inspiring, awesome, baked, bang on, bang-up, based, beamful, beamsome, beamy, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, beneship, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bitching, bladdered, blasted, blazed, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bomb, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, brilliant, buckish, budgy, bully, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, chemically impaired, cher, choice, chopped, chronic, chur, clobbered, cock on, cocked, cockeyed, concupiscent, cool, copacetic, corned, crackerjack, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cushty, cut, dank, dead drunk, def, desirous, destroyed, disguised, dope, drugged, drugged-out, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, effulgent, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, excellent, exceptional, excited, fab, fabulous, faced, fantabulosa, fantastic, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, finger-lickin' good, fireball, first-rate, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fly, fou, four sheets in the wind, frabjous, fresh, fried, frisky, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuckish, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gagging for it, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, geeked, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, glowing, gnarly, great, groggified, groggy, grouse, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, hard, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, hepped up, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hopped up, horny, hosed, hot, hot and bothered, hot to trot, how came you so, illuminating, impaired, in heat, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inlighted, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kicking, killer, kisky, lambent, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lascivious, lash, lashed, lathered, lautitious, legless, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lifted, lighty, liquored up, liquory, lit, lit up, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luminant, luminiferous, luminous, lushed, lustful, lustrous, lusty, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, marvelous, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nang, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, on the ran tan, orient, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, outstanding, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, peng, phat, phenomenal, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, profulgent, prurient, puggled, pukka, quality, quisby, rad, raddled, radiant, radical, randy, rat-arsed, ratted, ravenous, razzled, reefed, refulgent, resplendent, ripe, ripped, rock hard, rolling, rubbered, rum, ruttish, rutty, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, sexed up, shedded, sheeny, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shining, shiny, shitty, sick, skunked, slammed, slap-up, slarmied, slick, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spaced-out, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, spiffing, splashed, splendid, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, sterling, stewed, stimulated, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, super, superb, superior, swacked, sweet, swell, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, terrific, thirsty, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, toey, toey as a Roman sandal, top, top-drawer, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, top-hole, top-notch, top-of-the-range, top-shelf, toping, topping, trashed, trolleyed, tubular, tuned, turned on, twatfaced, twisted, unchaste, up there, venereal, venereous, wanton, wasted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whacked, whittled, wicked, wicked pissah, withered, wobbly, wonderful, woozy, worldie, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Antonyms

extinguish, unlighted

Related Words

lite, wagon-lit

Anagrams of lit