lite
adjective /laɪt/
/laɪt/
(informal)- (of food or drink) containing fewer calories than other versions of the same type of food, and therefore less likely to make you fat (a way of spelling ‘light’)
- lite ice cream
- (used after a noun) (disapproving) used to say that a thing is similar to something else but lacks many of its serious or important qualities
- I would describe this movie as ‘Hitchcock lite’.
Word Origin1950s: a deliberate respelling of light.