lite

¹

[ lahyt ]

adjective

1. noting a commercial product that is low in calories or low in any substance considered undesirable, as compared with a product of the same type: used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:

   lite beer.

2. noting a version that is comparatively less extreme, profound, advanced, etc., than the typical version (often used postpositively): The lite version of the app is available for mobile download.

   The film glossed over the dangers of the experiment with a science-lite explanation.

   The lite version of the app is available for mobile download.

noun

1. light ²( def 36 ).

-lite

²

1. a combining form used in the names of minerals or fossils:

   aerolite; chrysolite.

-lite

¹

combining form

1. See -lith
   (in names of minerals) stone Compare -lith

   chrysolite

lite

²

/ laɪt /

adjective

1. (of food and drink) containing few calories or little alcohol or fat
2. denoting a more restrained or less extreme version of a person or thing

   reggae lite

Other Words From

• liteness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of lite¹

First recorded in 1965–70; an informal, simplified spelling of light ²( def )

Origin of lite²

< French, simplified form of -lithe < Greek líthos stone; similarly German -lit, earlier -lith

Word History and Origins

Origin of lite¹

from French -lite or -lithe, from Greek lithos stone

Origin of lite²

C20: variant spelling of light ²

Example Sentences

Podcasts are “generally an ad-lite environment” while brands’ messaging “has a higher share of voice in this ecosystem compared to others,” Ross said.

From Digiday

Despite this initial use of influencers, Clubhouse is likely to remain brand-lite for a while yet.

From Digiday

It’s not a matter of appeasing independents or Republicans, or becoming “Republican lite” as some call it.

From Washington Blade

According to Cloudinary data, web developers that work to optimize the lite mode experience benefit from longer engagement and see up to a 10% uptick in session engagement.

From Search Engine Watch

In April 2020, 18% of global Android users enabled the “save-data,” or lite mode, function, which enables faster browsing by decreasing the amount of mobile data used.

From Search Engine Watch

Too many Democrats, in the face of national headwinds, ran as Republican-lite, Malloy said.

From The Daily Beast

Maybe all this Sturm und Drang will give birth to a new lime-lite generation of cocktails.

From The Daily Beast

In his previous roles, the 26-year-old actor was like Vince Vaughn-lite—a charismatic, eminently likeable motor mouth.

From The Daily Beast

Voegeli charges that Geoffrey Kabaservice and I propose only that Republicans dwindle into Democrats-lite.

From The Daily Beast

And some sort of fraud-lite will be committed by everybody, against everybody--including themselves.

From The Daily Beast

Than bad he hym syn erthe was so lyte; F. Than bad he hym see the erthe that is so lite (wrongly).

From Project Gutenberg

Meantime, Coligny and La Rochefoucauld were advancing to meet him with the lite of their army and with all the artillery they had.

From Project Gutenberg

She was a great contrast to the rest of them, who were in ultra fashionable and befeathered robes, of a style unknown to our lite.

From Project Gutenberg

We old chaps, my dear, air apt to forget that it is sum time since we was infants, and et lite food.

From Project Gutenberg

First of all the American Negro is the lite, the aristocracy of Liberia.

From Project Gutenberg