lit

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   illuminated; (slang) exciting or excellent; past tense of light

   The candles were lit and the room glowed warmly.

Past tense and past participle of light, from Old English līhtan ('to make light, illuminate'), from lēoht ('light, brightness'). The slang sense 'excellent, exciting' is a 20th–21st-century semantic extension.

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