: lit from behind
a backlit photograph/scene
a backlit display
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Inside a Gothic-feeling 1880s church now owned by a bourbon company backed by Bob Dylan are two towering walls of backlit bottles.
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Adam Sachs, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2026
Still, Apple’s Liquid Retina takes LED-backlit IPS to its logical conclusion, displaying up to 1 billion different colors through a panel with 10-bit color depth.
—Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
The high-back sport bucket seats with backlit N branding look less ridiculous than the available carbon-fiber buckets found in a BMW M3.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 4 Mar. 2026
The image, captured by photographer John Kraus, provided a novel view looking almost directly up and into the rocket's intense exhaust plume as it was shaped and backlit by the furious labors of the Merlin engines.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026
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Adam Sachs, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Mar. 2026
Still, Apple’s Liquid Retina takes LED-backlit IPS to its logical conclusion, displaying up to 1 billion different colors through a panel with 10-bit color depth.
—Joe Osborne, PC Magazine, 10 Mar. 2026
The high-back sport bucket seats with backlit N branding look less ridiculous than the available carbon-fiber buckets found in a BMW M3.
—Joel Feder, The Drive, 4 Mar. 2026
The image, captured by photographer John Kraus, provided a novel view looking almost directly up and into the rocket's intense exhaust plume as it was shaped and backlit by the furious labors of the Merlin engines.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2026
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“Backlit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backlit. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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backlit
adjective
back·lit
ˈbak-ˌlit 
: lit from behind
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