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adj
Illuminated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: lighted, luminous, alight, illuminated, inlighted, lighty, lit, lit up, aglow, beamful, beamsome, beamy, brilliant, effulgent, glowing, illuminating, lambent, lucent, luciferous, lucific, luminant, luminiferous, lustrous, orient, profulgent, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Drunk, intoxicated; under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: stoned, baked, blazed, blitzed, blown, chemically impaired, chopped, cut, drugged, drugged-out, fuckered up, fried, gassed, geeked, high, high as a kite, hepped up, hopped up, monged, munted, trolleyed, toasted, lifted, lit, off one's box, out of one's box, reefed, spaced-out, up there, wasted, whacked, zooted, zorched, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, binned, bingoed, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, corned, cocked, cockeyed, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, feeling no pain, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, frosted, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half polluted, half cut, half lit, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high as a Georgia pine, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kettled, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mabok, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, ratfaced, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soshed, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tight, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zotzed
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Sexually aroused, (especially) visibly so.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: ablaze, amorous, aroused, buckish, concupiscent, corny, desirous, drippy, DTF, excited, flustered, frisky, fuckish, gagging for it, horny, hot, hot and bothered, hot to trot, impure, in heat, lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, lusty, prurient, randy, ravenous, ruttish, rutty, sexed up, stimulated, thirsty, toey, toey as a Roman sandal, turned on, unchaste, venereal, venereous, wanton
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Exciting, captivating; fun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Excellent, fantastic; cool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Synonyms: ace, admirable, amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, badass, bang on, bang-up, studly, based, beatific, beneship, bitching, blissful, bomb, brilliant, bully, celestial, cher, choice, chronic, chur, cock on, commendable, cool, copacetic, crackerjack, cushty, dank, def, delightful, divine, dope, epic, excellent, exceptional, exemplary, exquisite, extraordinary, fab, fabulous, fantabulosa, fantastic, fierce, finger-lickin' good, fire, fireball, first-rate, fly, frabjous, glorious, gnarly, goated, great, grouse, heavenlike, heavenly, immaculate, impeccable, incredible, kick-ass, kicking, killer, lash, lautitious, lit, magnificent, marvelous, nang, outstanding, out of sight, phat, peak, peng, phenomenal, pog, poggers, priceless, pukka, quality, rad, radical, remarkable, rum, sensational, sick, slap-up, slick, spectacular, spiffing, splendid, spot on, stellar, sterling, stunning, super, superb, superior, sweet, swell, terrific, tight, top, top-drawer, top-hole, top-notch, top-of-the-range, top-shelf, topping, tubular, tuff, well-done, wicked, wicked pissah, wonderful, worldie
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Little.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A village in Östersund municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Little.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Colour; blee; dye; stain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Clipping of literature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Abbreviation of literature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
simple past and past participle of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
simple past and past participle of light (“alight: land, come down on”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To run or light (alight).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dialectal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To colour; dye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
set afire or burning
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: lighted
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
provided with artificial light
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: illuminated, lighted, well-lighted
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the humanistic study of a body of literature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: literature
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: literary study
History
Alteration of earlier light, from Middle English lighte, from Old English līhtte, first and third person singular preterite of līhtan (“to light”), by analogy with bit. More at light; compare fit (“fought”). This form was proscribed during the 18th and 19th centuries, with lighted being preferred, but is now the most common past form of light.
From Middle English lit, lut, from Old English lȳt (“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic *lūtilaz (“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewd- (“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxon lut (“little”), Middle High German lützen (“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.
From Middle English lit, from Old Norse litr (“colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlitaz (“sight, face”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Icelandic litur (“colour”), Old English wlite (“brightness, appearance, form, aspect, look, countenance, beauty, splendor, adornment”), Old English wlītan (“to gaze, look, observe”).
Short for literature.
From Middle English litten, liten, from Old Norse lita (“to colour”), from litr (“colour”). See above.
Across languages
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
