- noting a commercial product that is low in calories or low in any substance considered undesirable, as compared with a product of the same type: used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products: lite beer.
- noting a version that is comparatively less extreme, profound, advanced, etc., than the typical version (often used postpositively):The film glossed over the dangers of the experiment with a science-lite explanation. The lite version of the app is available for mobile download.
- a combining form used in the names of minerals or fossils: aerolite; chrysolite.
- (of food and drink) containing few calories or little alcohol or fat
- denoting a more restrained or less extreme version of a person or thing
- (in names of minerals) stone
