Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Illuminated by the sun.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Lighted by the sun.
Wiktionary
- adj. Illuminated by sunlight.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Lighted by the sun.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lighted by sunlight
Etymologies
- sun + lit (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Years later, the aide describes what happened next in the kind of sunlit, slo-mo tones they use in movies.”
“For instance, my own memory continues to clothe my early schooldays with a kind of sunlit happiness, though I was not only not consciously happy, but distinctly and consciously unhappy.”
“He needed to move through that blackness to the lush, green, sunlit landscape that awaited him.”
“Racing against someone who is a foot taller than you, and 10 years younger, poses its own issues, Ben Ainslie says dryly as, looking across the sunlit sea, he readies himself for his next big brute of a challenge.”
The Guardian: Ben Ainslie ready to battle for right to defend Olympic crown
“To her surprise and relief she spied a sunlit trail and quickly began to follow it.”
“The dinning space is ample with sunlit seating facing the boulevard for people watching and also more cozy private red booths for a more intimate meal.”
“After what felt like hours, Destry found himself squeezing through the thickest of the bramble-trees and into the sunlit clearing that housed the cocoon.”
“Clearly McCarthy's side can play a bit to have done so well against the best the Premier League has to offer, but, as the blunt Yorkshireman knows better than just about anyone else, survival is normally achieved by beating the teams around you, not the ones on the sunlit uplands in the distance.”
The Guardian: Wolves can beat the best, so why can't they beat the rest? | Paul Wilson
“For her his face was sunlit, and she needs must take it between her hands and hold it forever.”
“We used to spend a few weeks every summer at my grandparents' semi-detached house just 100 yards from Paignton seafront and my childhood memories are flooded with long, sunlit days spent on the beach.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sunlit’.
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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quotato's Words
prospicience, appoggiatura, actually, thrum, nisus, univocal, eschatology, concupiscible, penury, psychedelic, vapid, braggadocio and 107 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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describe me
charming, afectionate, addictive, selfless, patience, drastic, fond, light-heeled, fragrant, delicate, care-free, natural and 95 more...
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for the scene to be changed
gloaming, star, starry, autumn, sky, funeral, moon, ocean, fog, moor, masquerade, moonlight and 16 more...
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High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hu...laughter-silvered, sun-split, sunward, wind-swept, surly, tumbling, mirth, wheeled, swung, sunlit, footless, delirious and 3 more...
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