Lighted

Lighted

Adjective / Verb (past tense) · /ˈlaɪ.tɪd/

Definition

(Adjective) provided with illumination; having been ignited; (Verb) past tense and past participle of light in the senses of to illuminate and to ignite. Lighted and lit are both accepted past forms; lighted tends to be used attributively (a lighted candle) while lit is more common predicatively (the candle was lit).

Origin

From light (Old English lēoht / lyhtan — to illuminate, to set fire to) + -ed (the regular English past tense and past participle suffix for weak verbs). The competing form lit is the irregular (strong) past tense of light. Both forms coexist in standard English, with distribution varying by context and regional variety.