sunlit
[suhn-lit]
- lighted by the sun.
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Origin of sunlit
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Related Words
pleasant, brilliant, luminous, radiant, sunlit, golden, glistening, vivid, shimmering, sunny, dazzling, blazing, sparkling, shiny, intense, flashing, silvery, clarion, cloudless, fineExamples from the Web for sunlit
Contemporary Examples
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 ShowRobert W. Chambers
February 20, 2014
At first, his friends noted, he would simply ask his mistress to sit in a chair in a sunlit room.
A sunlit courtyard with a dry, cracked fountain at its center beckoned us to stop.
Historical Examples
They fell on the sunlit slope of grass, and he did not pick them up.
Howards EndE. M. Forster
She was looking out on the sunlit city as if taking a last farewell of it.
The Eternal CityHall Caine
The stormy night had been succeeded by a calm and sunlit day.
The Shame of MotleyRaphael Sabatini
With that he flung the two pieces wide into the sunlit waters of the brook.
The Trampling of the LiliesRafael Sabatini
The gloom of the darkling forests, too, had passed into the sunlit parks of delight.
The Golden WomanRidgwell Cullum