Definition of lit
- past tense and past participle of light
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Commissioners discussed, medical marijuana and affordable housing, hired a new city attorney, green-lit a development project and a whole lot more.
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A couple driving near the Central Florida Fairgrounds suffered burns and a collision with a pole near the road, after a lit cigarette ignited the propane gas in the car.
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On a recent visit, we were comforted that the low-lit, red-hued dining room and bar strung with romantic rouge lights remain the same.
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Theresa’s job as a clerk in the marijuana dispensary, which is seedy and neon-lit (in order to look, Laura says, a little bit like outer space), is a lot more complicated and treacherous than her sleepy eyes initially suggest.
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Lit from within, the row of shops feels especially magical, and the old-fashioned street lamps add to the effect.
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The I-30 sign was to be 8-foot-tall steel letters, mounted on repurposed concrete construction barriers cascaded one-by-one for 500 feet perpendicular to the highway and lit after sunset.
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Several other teams have made their interest known to Golden State, Stein reported, but none other is known to have been green-lit to communicate with West.
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Louise Mensch is experienced in three areas: Writing chick lit, marrying rock stars, and quitting a political career.
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Wells sits before four screens in a massive, dimly lit room thick with the hum of the dozens of others tending to Houston’s misery.
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PHOENIX — Video recorded on a downtown Phoenix street Tuesday night shows a lit object that begins smoking after striking a police officer as the scene outside President Trump's rally descended into chaos.
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By contrast, Darla in DeFuniak Springs recalled a particularly frustrating meeting of the exclusive Chautauqua Guild, where Darnell showed up with a lit cigar and propped his feet on the piano bench.
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The team found that cabbage thistles—a species that’s common to all the meadows, and that’s usually visited heavily by nocturnal pollinators—produced 13 percent less fruit in the lit field than in the dark ones.
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His album includes dimly lit views of storefronts and public spaces that once teemed with people.
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The finished project will have black powder coated traffic signals with back lit street signs, landscaping, stamped concrete sidewalks and other aesthetic improvements.
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The lower section of the building allows for digital advertising, while the top will feature brightly lit signs promoting the buildings' owner and major tenants.
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At both time points, the rats with lit bacteria showed an average oxygen level boost of a more-impressive 25-fold.
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lit Synonyms
Synonyms
besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered [slang], high, impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], pickled, pie-eyed, plastered, potted [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stiff, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]Antonyms
sober, straightRelated Words
maudlin; beery; befuddled, bleary-eyed, crapulous, dopey (also dopy), rocky, strung out, stupefied; debauched, dissipated, dissolute; alcoholic, bibulous, dipsomaniacalNear Antonyms
abstemious, abstinent, dry, temperate, teetotal; clearheaded, cool, level, steadyLIT Defined for Kids
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