lit up

adjective

: drunk sense 1a

Synonyms of lit up

• drunk
• drunken
• fried
• wet
• wasted
• impaired
• blind

Examples of lit up in a Sentence

he finally wandered in at 3:00 a.m., obviously lit up

Recent Examples on the Web

Views are also good at what has become something of a local landmark, particularly to drivers on the nearby M61 motorway who can’t fail to notice the sweeping roof and angled floodlight poles when lit up at night. — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Sadness and fear, for example, lit up the right rostral supra sylvian gyrus—which, in humans, contributes to the processing of visual information. — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 10 Aug. 2026

Normally, the cavern is one of the darkest places on Earth, but today, it is lit up for maintenance, offering us a rare chance to see inside. — James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

His prose radiates an ecstatic pessimism, as if lit up from within by the relief of not having to sugarcoat things with comforting lies. — Peter C. Baker, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for lit up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup