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sunlit

Syllables: sun·litUK/ˈsʌnlɪt/US/ˈsʌnˌlɪt/

sunlit adjective: illuminated by sunlight.

Adjective

sunlit (comparative more sunlit, superlative most sunlit)

  1. Illuminated by sunlight.
    • "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. [James Abbott McNeill] Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Silverside”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 282
    Synonyms:
    sunlighted

sunlit meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

sunlit in Tamil

கதிரவன் ஒளியூட்டப்பட்ட, கதிரவனொளி தங்கு தடையின்றிப் படுகிற

sunlit in Urdu

دھوپ دار, منور

sunlit in Bengali

সূর্যালোকিত, রৌদ্রোজ্জ্বল

Examples of sunlit in a sentence

  • In a patch of sunlit windblown water a fish leaped from the surface.
  • That just leaves the challenge of bridging the gap between today's rather gloomy situation and tomorrow's sunlit uplands.
  • Sunlit tree crowns (5 deciduous species groups) were classified using a Random Forest approach for monotemporal, two-date and three-date combinations.

All 16 example sentences with sunlit

Synonyms of sunlit

Forms of sunlit

comparativemore sunlit
superlativemost sunlit

Origin of sunlit

From sun + lit.

Words formed from sunlit

Questions about sunlit

What does sunlit mean?
Sunlit means illuminated by sunlight.
What is sunlit in Tamil?
Sunlit in Tamil is கதிரவன் ஒளியூட்டப்பட்ட, கதிரவனொளி தங்கு தடையின்றிப் படுகிற. See Sunlit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sunlit?
Sunlit is an adjective.
How do you pronounce sunlit?
Sunlit is pronounced /ˈsʌnlɪt/ (UK).

Words near sunlit in the dictionary

  1. sunlights
  2. sunlike
  3. sunlikeness
  4. sunline
  5. sunlines
  6. sunlit
  7. sunlit uplands
  8. sunlounger
  9. sunloungers
  10. sunlust
  11. sunly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sunlit (page history and authors); sunlit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sunlit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sunlit (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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