lite
Abridged or lesser; being a simpler or unpaid version of a product.
Adjective not comparable, postpositional
- Abridged or lesser; being a simpler or unpaid version of a product.
- Light in composition, notably low in fat, calories etc. Most commonly used commercially.
- Dinner consisted of crackers, some broccoli and a salad with lite ranch dressing.
- Lightweight
- Informal spelling of light.
- My favorite color is lite blue!
- Lacking substance or seriousness; watered down.
- this compromise bill is reform lite. It is both more palatable to nursing home owners and less protective of elderly patients - 2003 March 6, “Reform Lite”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
- If there is a difference between doing this to a child and engaging in old-fashioned punishment, it is at best a quantitative rather than a qualitative difference. What Dreikurs and his followers are selling is...
- The analysis bolsters claims by the Tories that markets will not wait patiently as Britain draws up leisurely plans for austerity-lite - 2010 April 8, “Sovereign debt crisis at 'boiling point', warns Bank for...
Origin
Variation of light (in the sense of lacking weight, substance, etc.)
Derived
Chadlite COM lite covenant-lite cov-lite liteness marriage lite rogue-lite
Adjective UK, dialectal
- few; little
Origin
From Middle English lit, lut (“little”), from Old English lȳt.
Forms
Noun alt of, archaic
- Archaic form of light (“window or aperture in a building”).
- A window pane
Forms
Derived
Noun UK, dialectal
- A little, bit.
Noun UK, dialectal
- The act of waiting; a wait.
Origin
From Middle English liten, from Old Norse hlíta (“to rely on, trust, abide by”). Cognate with Icelandic hlíta (“to comply”), Swedish lita (“to trust, rely on, depend on, confide in”), Danish lide (“to trust”).
Forms
Verb
- To expect; wait.
- To rely.