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underlit, a.
Brit. |ˌʌndəˈlɪt|, U.S. |ˌəndərˈlɪt|
[‹ under- prefix1 + lit adj.]
1. Illuminated from underneath.
1887Times 19 Sept. 8/1 A cold sky with underlit clouds suggest the still and solemn hour of early dawn. 1980Daily Intelliegencer (Doylestown, Pa.) 21 Mar. 44/4 The floor is a sunburst pattern of underlit plexiglass panels. 2006Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 30 Apr. 16 Some 5,600sqft of space, including..underfloor heating, glass underlit floors and a remote-control fire.
2. Insufficiently illuminated.
1939Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail 3 Sept. 7/1 The reader may also recognize the value of gossip as distinct from comment, and like..Dora Fleeson for telling secrets about the underlit national capital. 1960L. Langner Play's the Thing 159 An underlit production of Porgy in London made it impossible for the critics to see the faces of the Negro actors. 1973Science 30 Mar. 1289, 98 percent [of streets] are underlit. 2002A. Phillips Prague iv. viii. 337 He led them to a short, dark hallway off the main corridor. He paused in front of the last door at the hall's underlit terminus, and he absently jangled the keys. |