lite

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

lite BrE [laɪt] NAmE [laɪt] 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’.

Word Origin:
[lite] 1950s: a deliberate respelling of ↑light.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  light, low-cal, calorie-free