Definitions for lite

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Spelling: [lahyt]

IPA: /laɪt/

Lite is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in lite (eilt).

Definitions for lite

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 lite

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

Examples for lite

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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