light-struck

[ lahyt-struhk ]

adjective

, Photography.

1. (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.

Word History and Origins

Origin of light-struck¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The designs were also a provocation — a celebration of ugliness or at least, as they saw it, “almost a rejection” of traditional ideas about beauty, said Mr. Chen, as he and Mr. Williams led a tour of their firm’s sprawling, light-struck new studio in the South Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn on a recent afternoon.

From New York Times

See, I cannot even name them, although one of them is looking out through my eyes right now, one of them is writing all this down with light-struck fingers.

From New York Times

His prismatic color works and photograms of light-struck liquids were once regarded as the products of a quirky outsider.

From The New Yorker

In the distance, Europeans and Indians gather amicably on the shore of a calm, light-struck lake.

From New York Times

It’s a symphonic work about transience and loss, related in artwork that has some of Edward Hopper’s moody, light-struck realism.

From New York Times