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backlit

US/ˈbækˌlɪt/

backlit is the simple past and past participle of backlight.

Meaning of backlight

Verb

backlight (third-person singular simple present backlights, present participle backlighting, simple past and past participle backlighted or backlit)

  1. (transitive) To illuminate something from behind.
    • It offers few subtleties, but those can be effective, as when the chorus is backlighted in the rear of the auditorium to produce an ominous play of shadows onstage.2007 June 2, James R. Oestreich, “Strange, Faraway Fantasies of Hell and Paradise”, in New York Times

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Adjective

backlit (comparative more backlit, superlative most backlit)

  1. Lit or illuminated from behind.
    • a backlit computer keyboard
    Antonyms:
    frontlit

Antonyms of backlit

Forms of backlit

comparativemore backlit
superlativemost backlit

Origin of backlit

From back + lit.

Words formed from backlit

Questions about backlit

What does backlit mean?
Backlit means lit or illuminated from behind.
What is backlit the simple past and past participle of?
Backlit is the simple past and past participle of backlight.
What part of speech is backlit?
Backlit is an adjective.
How do you pronounce backlit?
Backlit is pronounced /ˈbækˌlɪt/ (US).

Words near backlit in the dictionary

  1. backlinks
  2. backlist
  3. backlisted
  4. backlisting
  5. backlists
  6. backlit
  7. backload
  8. backloaded
  9. backloading
  10. backloadings
  11. backloads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backlit (page history and authors); backlight (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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