highlit

English

Verb

highlit

1. (uncommon) simple past and past participle of highlight; highlighted.
   • 1967, Alexander C. Soper, “A pictorial biography of Prince Shotoku”, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin:

     The potential precariousness of the alliance is highlit by the catastrophe of its abrupt ending in the next generation, after the deaths of the two principals.

   • 1998, Charles Townshend, “The meaning of Irish freedom constitutionalism in the Free State”, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society:

     I want to focus on an aspect highlit by Denis Donoghue when he reviewed it in the London Review of Books.

Usage notes

• Used with less than three percent of the frequency of "highlighted" in books.
• Sometimes used as an example of a misconstruction in books on language learning.