/ laɪt; NAmE / adjective ( informal )
1.
( especially NAmE ) ( of food or drink ) containing fewer calories than other types of food, and therefore less likely to make you fat (a way of spelling 'light') :
lite ice cream
2.
(used after a noun) ( disapproving ) used to say that a thing is similar to sth else but lacks many of its serious or important qualities :
I would describe this movie as 'Hitchcock lite'.
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WORD ORIGIN
1950s: a deliberate respelling of light .