SUNLIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sunlit mean? 

• SUNLIT (adjective)
  The adjective SUNLIT has 1 sense:

1. lighted by sunlight

  Familiarity information: SUNLIT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNLIT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lighted by sunlight

Synonyms:

sunlit; sunstruck

Context example:

violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges

Similar:

light (characterized by or emitting light)

 Context examples 

In one crater that is partially sunlit, Dawn's infrared mapping spectrometer confirmed the presence of ice.

(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)

Life in Earth's oceans depends on upwelling (upward flow) which returns nutrients from the dark depths of the ocean to the sunlit portions of the ocean where photosynthetic life lives.

(Some Exoplanets May Have Greater Variety of Life than Exists on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

After spending more than a month in orbit on the dark side of dwarf planet Ceres, NASA's Dawn spacecraft has captured several views of the sunlit north pole of this intriguing world.

(Dawn Glimpses Ceres' North Pole, NASA)

At the further side the road winds through La Reolle, Bazaille, and Marmande, with the sunlit river still gleaming upon the right, and the bare poplars bristling up upon either side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Add this up over billions of leaves in very sunlit, leafy places, especially the tropics, and it means there is a bunch more soil moisture stored up underground, so much so that climate models predict rainfall events will saturate the ground and more rain will run into rivers.

(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)

He was stirred profoundly by the passing glimpse at the secret, and he was again caught up in the vision of sunlit spaces and starry voids—until it came to him that it was very quiet, and he saw Ruth regarding him with an amused expression and a smile in her eyes.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When I turned from it and repassed the trap-door, I could scarcely see my way down the ladder; the attic seemed black as a vault compared with that arch of blue air to which I had been looking up, and to that sunlit scene of grove, pasture, and green hill, of which the hall was the centre, and over which I had been gazing with delight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In silence they wandered together over the velvet turf and on through the broad Minstead woods, where the old lichen-draped beeches threw their circles of black shadow upon the sunlit sward.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I'd travel faster with you just the same, was what he wanted to blurt out, as he caught a vision of a world without end of sunlit spaces and starry voids through which he drifted with her, his arm around her, her pale gold hair blowing about his face.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Alleyne was still seated on the rock, his griefs and his joys drifting swiftly over his mind like the shadow of clouds upon a sunlit meadow, when of a sudden he became conscious of a low, deep sound which came booming up to him through the fog.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)