Definition of Lit

Adjective: lit lit

Provided with artificial light
"a brightly lit room";
- illuminated, lighted, well-lighted
Set afire or burning
"a lit firecracker";
- lighted
Very drunk
- besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, pickled, tanked up, bombed, wasted, liquored up [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, swacked [N. Amer], juiced [N. Amer], stonkered [Austral, NZ], bladdered [Brit], paralytic [Brit], legless [Brit], steaming, out of it [Brit], stinko, blitzed, mullered [Brit], trashed, stewed, hammered, trolleyed [Brit], fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

Noun: lit (lits,litai) lit

The humanistic study of a body of literature
"he took a course in Russian lit";
- literature

Verb: light (lit, also lighted) lIt

Make lighter or brighter
- illume, illumine, light up, illuminate
Begin to smoke
"After the meal, some of the diners lit up";
- light up, fire up
To come to rest, settle
- alight, perch
Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
"Light a cigarette";
- ignite
Be allotted to somebody by assignment or as part of their role
- fall
(riding) alight from (a horse)
- unhorse, dismount, get off, get down, demount