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sunlighted

sunlighted adjective: illuminated by sunlight. Also the simple past and past participle of sunlight.

Adjective

sunlighted (comparative more sunlighted, superlative most sunlighted)

  1. Illuminated by sunlight.
    • With something, consequently, of the feeling which thrill the exile as he looks, for the last time, on the country of his birth, or with which the dying gaze on the sunlighted earth from whence they know their spirit is departing, Vanda looked back upon the misty heights of Jagodina, till leaving...1850, Laura Jewry, The Forest and the Fortress. A Romance of the 19th Century., volume I, London: T[homas] C[autley] Newby, pages 218–219
    • The point of light in the right one is the reflection, on the under part of the ball, of the light from the nose, which could, of course, be seen on the sunlighted side only.1856, John Ruskin, Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, and the Society of Painters in Water Colours, number II (1856), London: Smith, Elder & Co....
    Synonyms:
    sunlit

Also used as

sunlighted is also the simple past and past participle of sunlight.

Synonyms of sunlighted

Forms of sunlighted

comparativemore sunlighted
superlativemost sunlighted
alternative formsun-lighted

Origin of sunlighted

From sun + lighted.

From sunlight + -ed.

Questions about sunlighted

What does sunlighted mean?
Sunlighted means illuminated by sunlight.
What part of speech is sunlighted?
Sunlighted is an adjective.

Words near sunlighted in the dictionary

  1. sunlet
  2. sunlets
  3. sunlight
  4. sunlight is the best disinfectant
  5. sunlight zone
  6. sunlighted
  7. sunlighting
  8. sunlights
  9. sunlike
  10. sunlikeness
  11. sunline

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