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Definition of "sunlit" [sun•lit]

  • Illuminated by the sun. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sunlit" in a sentence
  • "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."