Definitions for lites

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lites lite

Spelling: [lahyt]

IPA: /laɪt/

Lites is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in lites (eilst).

Definitions for lites

noun

1. light2 (def 36).

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:
2. noting a version that is comparatively less extreme, profound, advanced, etc., than the typical version (often used postpositively):

Origin of lites

First recorded in 1965-70; an informal, simplified spelling of light²

Examples for lites

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

Even The Wall Street Journal weighed in, describing LeMieux as nothing more than “Charlie Crist lite.”

Ngai associates it with other "lite" aesthetic categories promulgated by postwar consumer culture: quaint, wacky, quirky, cool.

The elect of God, the lite of all the centuries, of whom the world was not worthy.

The war has transformed this town, once sought after by the lite of society.

How much finer for a man of the lite to stand aside from the rout!

Why should not these members of the lite have exceptional enjoyment?

The lite of intelligence and fashion honored us with their presence.

This lite of which the University is thus robbed must be got back.

The choicest of the lite were there,—ladies in demi-toilet and bonneted.