Synonyms of lit

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adjective (1)

variants or lighted

1

as in illuminated

filled with much light

the coat room was just lit well enough for us to identify our jackets

Synonyms & Similar Words

• illuminated
• illumined
• light
• brightened
• alight
• bright
• lightsome
• ablaze
• highlighted
• spotlit
• ignited
• kindled
• floodlit
• floodlighted
• spotlighted
• shiny
• moonlit
• sunlit
• sunny
• sunshiny

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dark
• unlit
• darkened
• blackened
• dusk
• dimmed
• dusky
• pitch-black
• lightless
• pitch-dark
• darkling
• darkish
• sombre
• gloomy
• somber
• shadowy
• gray
• obscured
• cloudy
• grey
• tenebrous
• pale
• murky
• leaden
• sunless
• shadowlike
• lightproof

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as in burning

being on fire

some lighted torches lined the path to the shrine

Synonyms & Similar Words

• burning
• blazing
• flaming
• glowing
• flickering
• burnt
• ignited
• kindled
• burned
• aflame
• smoldering
• alight
• afire
• enflamed
• charred
• inflamed
• fiery
• combusting
• ablaze
• aglow
• conflagrant
• smouldering
• live
• roasting
• flaring
• searing
• singed
• seared
• broiling
• sizzling
• scorched
• scorching
• red-hot
• piping hot
• incinerated
• scalding
• hot

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• extinguished
• dead
• choked
• smothered
• quenched
• damped
• stamped (out)
• doused
• snuffed (out)
• suffocated
• dowsed

lit

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adjective (2)

as in drunk

being under the influence of alcohol

Raucous singing could be heard coming from tents full of lit Oktoberfest revelers.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drunk
• fried
• drunken
• wet
• bombed
• plastered
• loaded
• wasted
• impaired
• gassed
• blind
• smashed
• stewed
• potted
• ripped
• blasted
• hammered
• tipsy
• pickled
• looped
• stoned
• soused
• tanked
• juiced
• intoxicated
• oiled
• under the influence
• lit up
• crocked
• squiffy
• tight
• inebriated
• under the weather
• high
• sloshed
• three sheets to the wind
• boozy
• three sheets in the wind
• blitzed
• besotted
• stinking
• wiped out
• squiffed
• stiff
• inebriate
• canned
• sozzled
• cockeyed
• blotto
• tiddly
• in the bag
• sottish
• alcoholic
• pie-eyed
• in one's cups
• strung out
• dissipated
• maudlin
• beery
• rocky
• stupefied
• befuddled
• dopey
• crapulous
• debauched
• bleary-eyed
• dopy
• dissolute
• dipsomaniacal
• bibulous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• dry
• sober
• temperate
• steady
• cool
• level
• abstemious
• abstinent
• teetotal
• clearheaded

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verb (1)

variants or lighted

past tense of light

1

as in burnt

to set (something) on fire

we lit the kindling before adding the heavier logs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• burnt
• ignited
• burned
• kindled
• cooked
• baked
• torched
• enflamed
• enkindled
• fired
• brightened
• inflamed
• charred
• scorched
• cremated
• illumined
• immolated
• illuminated
• relighted
• broiled
• relit
• ashed
• set off
• incinerated
• lightened
• rekindled
• irradiated
• seared
• radiated
• deflagrated
• frizzled
• stoked
• reignited
• kilned
• banked
• scalded
• scathed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• extinguished
• put out
• quenched
• choked
• smothered
• doused
• stamped (out)
• dowsed
• suffocated
• snuffed (out)
• dimmed
• obscured
• darkened
• blackened
• dulled

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as in illumined

to supply with light

the lights from the TV cameras will light this room as though it were high noon

Synonyms & Similar Words

• illumined
• illuminated
• lightened
• bathed
• irradiated
• shined
• beaconed
• shone
• brightened
• illumed
• burnt
• emblazed
• beat (down)
• kindled
• ignited
• glowed
• beamed
• highlighted
• radiated
• blazed
• incinerated
• spotlighted
• blinded
• haloed
• gleamed
• glared
• spotlit
• dazzled
• glittered
• burned
• glistened
• floodlit
• floodlighted
• flamed
• enhaloed
• fired
• dazed
• bedazzled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• darkened
• blackened
• dimmed
• obscured
• covered
• dulled
• veiled
• extinguished
• shrouded
• obfuscated
• quenched
• put out
• doused
• snuffed (out)
• dowsed

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verb (2)

variants or lighted

past tense of light

1

as in perched

to come to rest after descending from the air

the bird lit on the branch and began to sing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• perched
• landed
• alit
• alighted
• touched down
• roosted
• settled
• belly-landed
• crash-landed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rose
• climbed
• arose
• ascended
• took off
• floated
• hung
• flew
• blasted off
• glided
• soared
• hanged
• hovered
• winged
• planed

2

as in dismounted

to come down from something (as a vehicle)

he hurriedly lighted from the bus and started walking up the street

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dismounted
• descended
• alit
• disembarked
• alighted
• got down
• deplaned
• detrained

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• mounted
• embarked
• climbed (aboard)
• got in
• boarded
• entrained
• emplaned
• enplaned

Phrases Containing lit

• lit up