sunlighted

comparative more sunlighted · superlative most sunlighted · alternative sun-lighted

1. Illuminated by sunlight.

   The point of light in the right one is the reflection, on the under part of the ball, of the light from the nose, which could, of course, be seen on the sunlighted side only.

   1856, John Ruskin, Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, and the Society of Painters in Water Colours, number II (1856), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], page 42

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   With something, consequently, of the feeling which thrill the exile as he looks, for the last time, on the country of his birth, or with which the dying gaze on the sunlighted earth from whence they know their spirit is departing, Vanda looked back upon the misty heights of Jagodina, till leaving the banks of the bright Morawa, along which, for a time, their course lay, they plunged into the mighty forests, through which ran the road to Rudnik, and the feathery crowns of the ancient trees gradually hid Jagodina from her sight, and the last faint trace of its loftiest peak became blended with the white clouds of the summer sky.

   1850, Laura Jewry, The Forest and the Fortress. A Romance of the 19th Century., volume I, London: T[homas] C[autley] Newby, pages 218–219

   I have come to learn, or perhaps I have forced myself to believe, these doldrum days will be followed by a day, or a few hours, of euphoria in which the mind, tired of its own torment, races off to dance in some sunlighted field.

   1992, The New York Times Magazine, page 60

   Synonyms: sunlit

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of sunlight