lighted

Adjective

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (2)

set afire or burning“the lighted candles”“a lighted cigarette”“a lit firecracker”Synonyms: lit
provided with artificial light“illuminated advertising”“looked up at the lighted windows”“a brightly lit room”“a well-lighted stairwell”Synonyms: illuminated lit well-lighted

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Light \Light\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. l[=y]htan, l[imac]htan, to shine. [root]122. See Light, n.]

1.To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light the gas; -- sometimes with up. [1913 Webster]

If a thousand candles be all lighted from one.— Hakewill.[1913 Webster]

And the largest lamp is lit.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

2.To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]

Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn To light the dead.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds.— F. Harrison.[1913 Webster]

The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

3.To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light. [1913 Webster]

His bishops lead him forth, and light him on.— Landor.[1913 Webster]

To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire. [1913 Webster]

Light \Light\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. l[imac]htan to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. l[imac]ht light. See Light not heavy, and cf. Alight, Lighten to make light.]

1.To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in. [1913 Webster]

When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.— Gen. xxiv. 64.[1913 Webster]

Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

2.To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

It made all their hearts to light.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

3.To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. [1913 Webster]

[The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all.— Sir. J. Davies.[1913 Webster]

On the tree tops a crested peacock lit.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

4.To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]

On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

5.To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into. [1913 Webster]

The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive.— Locke.[1913 Webster]

They shall light into atheistical company.— South.[1913 Webster]

And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

lighted \lighted\ adj.

1.set afire or burning.

Syn: ignited, enkindled, kindled, lit. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

2.Illuminated by artificial light; as, lighted by a high-powered searchligh.

Syn: illuminated, lit, well-lighted. [WordNet 1.5]