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sunlit

sunlit

9 1.0
Sunlight shines on it
  • adjective
  • /ˈsʌnˌlɪt/
translation icon : iluminado por el sol
  • Bob walked through French doors into the sunlit morning, each step a deliberate motion.

Hanaba is at the sunlit stove tending the speckled enamel pot.

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Examples

  • She enjoyed her coffee on the balcony, surrounded by sunlit flowers blooming brightly.

  • Near the edge of the cemetery, he stopped and stood gazing at the length of sunlit meadow.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • In the sunlit garden, we both joined our hands.

  • Two beautiful children are playing in the sunlit garden.

  • Later, they were driving through the sunlit city in a taxi.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • A Japanese soldier stands to the left, under a large sunlit window.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Nest kept her pictures on a table in the living room where it was always sunlit and cheerful.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • But somewhere high in the sunlit branches, a redbird sang over and over in a clear pealing voice.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Your limbs went slack and ticklish, and you burst into a run, leaping across the sunlit grass, yelling "Pogo!"

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The children laughed and played in the sunlit garden, enjoying the warmth of the day.

Synonyms

sunny
vssunlit
226 1.0

Bright with sunlight or cheerful and pleasant like sunshine

refers only to literal sunlight rather than mood or pleasantness
sun-drenched
vssunlit
3 4.1

Full of warm bright sunlight

describes basic illumination rather than heavy or extensive sun exposure
sunstruck
vssunlit
1 4.8

A person or thing that looks bright because sunlight shines on it

means being simply illuminated by sunlight without emphasis on intensity
daylit
vssunlit
3.8

A place that has natural daylight instead of artificial light

specifies direct sunlight illumination not general daytime light
lit
vssunlit
1.0

Having enough light to see easily

is bright because of any light source rather than only natural light

Antonyms

1.0

With little or no light and not bright

1 1.6

Partly protected from direct sunlight by a shadow

How Sunlit

blinding
3 4.1
bright
459 1.0
sunlit
9 1.0
dim
62 1.0
dark
1.0

Surface Forms

sunlit positive

Morphology

sunlit = sun + lit (transparent) = sun + lit

Formed by a straightforward combination of 'sun' + 'lit' meaning 'illuminated by the sun', which a B1 learner can derive from knowing both components.

Etymology

Sunlit is made of sun and lit, the past of 'light', so sunlit means 'made bright by the sun'.