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alt-lite

alt-lite is the alternative spelling of alt-light.

Meaning of alt-light

Noun

alt-light

  1. (Internet, derogatory) A nebulous grouping of far-right people and ideologies, mostly active on the internet, who are largely aligned with the alt-right but reject explicit white nationalism and anti-Semitism.
    • It [new atheism] was one of the predecessors to the alt-light, with an underlying Christopher Hitchens style of hitting out at the irrational and the faithful.2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 7, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN

Questions about alt-lite

What is alt-lite the alternative spelling of?
Alt-lite is the alternative spelling of alt-light.

Words near alt-lite in the dictionary

  1. alt-girls
  2. alt-left
  3. alt-light
  4. alt-lights
  5. alt-lit
  6. alt-lite
  7. alt-metal
  8. alt-middle
  9. alt-monthlies
  10. alt-monthly
  11. alt-pop

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alt-lite (page history and authors); alt-light (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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