lit

verb

/ˈlɪt/

Etymology

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”).

derived from *lewd-✻
derived from *lūtilaz✻
derived from lȳt
derived from lit

Definitions

simple past and past participle of light (“illuminate
simple past and past participle of light (“illuminate; start a fire; etc”)
2
simple past and past participle of light (“alight
simple past and past participle of light (“alight: land, come down on”)
- […] but finally [the bird] came to the tree and, after edging along falteringly, lit on a branch above them.
3
To run or light (alight).
- With that the kid lits off down the street, and, what do you know!
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1. 4
  Illuminated.
  - He walked down the lit corridor.
2. 5
  Drunk, intoxicated
  Drunk, intoxicated; under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
  - True to my word last night, I got very lit.
3. Sexually aroused, (especially) visibly so.
4. 7
  Exciting, captivating
  Exciting, captivating; fun.
  - This party is gonna be lit.
  - DJ sets so lit the dance floor's dripping with sweat?
  - If indie punk, pop-punk, post-punk, and emo happen to be your bag, this early-week show at Paper Tiger is gonna be lit.
5. 8
  Excellent, fantastic
  Excellent, fantastic; cool.
  - Those jeans are lit.
  - […] will keep your feet looking lit this summer thanks to the Trainer Exchange.
  - At his Upper East Side office, the talented doctor has a very lit and elegant office, where art canvasses the walls.
6. Little.
7. Colour
  Colour; blee; dye; stain.
8. To colour
  To colour; dye.
9. 12
  Clipping of literature.
  - Do we have any lit homework tonight?
10. Abbreviation of literature.
11. A village in Östersund municipality, Jämtland County, Sweden.

The neighborhood

Derived

backlit, candlelit, dim-lit, earthlit, fairy-lit, firelit, gaslit, gas-lit, half lit, headlit, illlit, ill-lit, lamplit, litty, lit up, matchlit, moonlit, moon-lit, oil-lit, skylit, snowlit, starlit, strip-lit, sunlit, toplit, torchlit, underlit, unlit, well-lit

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lit. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at lit. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at lit

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA