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sunlit

[ suhn-lit ]

/ ˈsʌnˌlɪt /

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adjective

lighted by the sun.

RELATED WORDS

pleasant, brilliant, luminous, radiant, golden, glistening, vivid, shimmering, sunny, dazzling, blazing, sparkling, shiny, intense, flashing, silvery, clarion, cloudless, fine, light

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Origin of sunlit

First recorded in 1815–25; sun + lit¹

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for sunlit

The one passion of my life lay buried in the sunlit forests of Brittany.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
At first, his friends noted, he would simply ask his mistress to sit in a chair in a sunlit room.
Baudelaire’s Femme Fatale Muse|James MacManus|May 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A sunlit courtyard with a dry, cracked fountain at its center beckoned us to stop.
Adventures with an Extreme Polyglot: Excerpt from 'Babel No More'|Michael Erard|January 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The girl had stopped beside the sunlit pond, leaning far over.
The Dragon Painter|Mary McNeil Fenollosa

Life seemed very precarious, in spite of the sunlit landscape.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria|Winston Spencer Churchill
The sunlit clearing, the grey cabin, the dark forest edges, all seemed to whirl and swim about her for an instant.
The Heart of the Ancient Wood|Charles G. D. Roberts
But in the depths of her crystal she saw always a sunlit sea and a gull's wings flashing.
Athalie|Robert W. Chambers
In the sunlit calms, riding at our moorings, much we discussed eternity and creation.
The Reckoning|Robert W. Chambers