New Year's Eve is once a year and it's gonna be lit.
(slang) Excellent, fantastic; cool.
Synonyms:see Thesaurus:excellent
2017, "Out with the old, in with the new", Dundrum Gazette, 8 June 2017, page 18:
[…] will keep your feet looking lit this summer thanks to the Trainer Exchange.
2019, "Top 10 Plastic Surgeons in Manhattan", Art Bodega Magazine, December/January 2019:
At his Upper East Side office, the talented doctor has a very lit and elegant office, where art canvasses the walls.
2019, Alice Ridley, "Letter from the Editor", Connect Magazine, October 2019, page 4:
The fourth article is all about autumnal leaf photography tips to get our Instagram photos looking lit.
Derived terms
half lit
illlit
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishlit, lut, from Old Englishlȳt(“little, few”), from Proto-Germanic*lūtilaz(“little, small”), from Proto-Indo-European*lewd-(“to cower, hunch over”). Cognate with Old Saxonlut(“little”), Middle High Germanlützen(“to make small or low, decrease”). More at little.
From Middle Englishlit, from Old Norselitr(“colour, dye, complexion, face, countenance”), from Proto-Germanic*wlitiz, *wlitaz(“sight, face”), from Proto-Indo-European*wel-(“to see”). Cognate with Icelandiclitur(“colour”), Old Englishwlite(“brightness, appearance, form, aspect, look, countenance, beauty, splendor, adornment”), Old Englishwlītan(“to gaze, look, observe”).
Noun
lit (uncountable)
(Britain dialectal) Colour; blee; dye; stain.
Derived terms
lithouse
litmus
Etymology 4
From Middle Englishlitten, liten, from Old Norselita(“to colour”), from litr(“colour”). See above.
Verb
lit (third-person singular simple presentlits, present participlelitting, simple past and past participlelitted)
(transitive) To colour; dye.
Etymology 5
Short for literature.
Noun
lit (uncountable)
Clipping of literature.
Derived terms
chick lit
lit crit
litfan
misery lit
quit lit
Anagrams
'til, TIL, TLI, til
Faroese
Etymology
From the verb líta (‘to view’)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [liːt]
Noun
litn (genitive singularlits, uncountable)
short wink, view, look
Declension
Synonyms
eygnabrá (wink)
Derived terms
andlit (face)
álit (trust)
eftirlit (control)
fyrilit (caution)
innlit (insight)
útlit (outlook)
yvirlit (overview, summary)
French
Etymology
From Old Frenchlit, from Latinlectus.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /li/
Homophone: lits
Noun
litm (plurallits)
bed
Derived terms
Verb
lit
third-person singular present indicative of lire
Further reading
“lit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Icelandic
Noun
lit
indefinite accusative/dative singular of litur
Lashi
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lit/
Noun
lit
air
References
Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)
J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on lit.
Anagrams
til
Polish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /lʲit/
Etymology 1
Noun
litm inan
lithium
(informal) lithium carbonate, a drug used in the treatment of bipolar disorder
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
litm anim
litas (currency of Lithuania)
Declension
Further reading
lit in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
litf
genitive singular of lite
Sumbawa
Noun
lit
sea
Swedish
Noun
litc
trust
Declension
Synonyms
tillit
See also
lita
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from GermanLicht and Englishlight.
Noun
lit (nominative plurallits)
light
illumination
Declension
Westrobothnian
Verb
lit (preteritelitäorlittä, supinelittorlitti)
(transitive) trust, obey, follow someone’s advice
Lit meg; ji val int ångerköft
Follow my advice, you will not regret the purchase.
Derived terms
litsam
olitsam
Verb
lit (preteritelitä)
(intransitive) be expensive, heavy; strain
Hä lit på tulumodä
It tries the patience.
Zay
Noun
lit
tree-bark
References
Initial SLLE Survey of the Zway Area by Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind