'Lighted' definitions:

Definition of 'lighted'

From: WordNet
adjective
Set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker" [syn: lighted, lit] [ant: unlighted, unlit]
adjective
Provided with artificial light; "illuminated advertising"; "looked up at the lighted windows"; "a brightly lit room"; "a well-lighted stairwell" [syn: illuminated, lighted, lit, well-lighted]

Definition of 'Lighted'

From: GCIDE
  • Light \Light\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. l[=y]htan, l[imac]htan, to shine. [root]122. See Light, n.]
  • 1. To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light the gas; -- sometimes with up. [1913 Webster]
  • If a thousand candles be all lighted from one. --Hakewill. [1913 Webster]
  • And the largest lamp is lit. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
  • Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up. [1913 Webster]
  • Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn To light the dead. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. --F. Harrison. [1913 Webster]
  • The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light. [1913 Webster]
  • His bishops lead him forth, and light him on. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
  • To light a fire, to kindle the material of a fire. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lighted'

From: GCIDE
  • Light \Light\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lighted (l[imac]t"[e^]d) or Lit (l[i^]t); p. pr. & vb. n. Lighting.] [AS. l[imac]htan to alight orig., to relieve (a horse) of the rider's burden, to make less heavy, fr. l[imac]ht light. See Light not heavy, and cf. Alight, Lighten to make light.]
  • 1. To dismount; to descend, as from a horse or carriage; to alight; -- with from, off, on, upon, at, in. [1913 Webster]
  • When she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. --Gen. xxiv. 64. [1913 Webster]
  • Slowly rode across a withered heath, And lighted at a ruined inn. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To feel light; to be made happy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • It made all their hearts to light. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To descend from flight, and rest, perch, or settle, as a bird or insect. [1913 Webster]
  • [The bee] lights on that, and this, and tasteth all. --Sir. J. Davies. [1913 Webster]
  • On the tree tops a crested peacock lit. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To come down suddenly and forcibly; to fall; -- with on or upon. [1913 Webster]
  • On me, me only, as the source and spring Of all corruption, all the blame lights due. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To come by chance; to happen; -- with on or upon; formerly with into. [1913 Webster]
  • The several degrees of vision, which the assistance of glasses (casually at first lit on) has taught us to conceive. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
  • They shall light into atheistical company. --South. [1913 Webster]
  • And here we lit on Aunt Elizabeth, And Lilia with the rest. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'lighted'

From: GCIDE
  • lighted \lighted\ adj.
  • 1. set afire or burning.
  • Syn: ignited, enkindled, kindled, lit. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
  • 2. Illuminated by artificial light; as, lighted by a high-powered searchligh.
  • Syn: illuminated, lit, well-lighted. [WordNet 1.5]

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