Definition of Lightless

1. Adjective. Giving no light. "Lightless stars `visible' only to radio antennae"

Similar to: Invisible, Unseeable
Derivative terms: Lightlessness

2. Adjective. Without illumination. "Through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"
Exact synonyms: Unilluminated, Unlighted, Unlit
Similar to: Dark
Derivative terms: Lightlessness

Definition of Lightless

1. a. Destitute of light; dark.

Definition of Lightless

1. Adjective. Lacking light; unilluminated ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lightless

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lightless

lighthouse
lighthouse keeper
lighthouse keepers
lighthouse lens
lighthouselike
lighthouses
lighting
lighting-up(a)
lighting circuit
lighting fixture
lighting industry
lighting out
lighting up
lightings
lightish
lightless (current term)
lightlessly
lightlessness
lightlied
lightlies
lightlike
lightly
lightly-armed
lightly armored
lightly armoured
lightman
lightmap
lightmaps
lightmen
lightmeter

Literary usage of Lightless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Poems of Ralph E. McMillin by Ralph Edward McMillin (1919)
"... drear, The White Way darkened and its garish sights Eclipsed and sobered on the "lightless Nights." He never more will see the sun, The sheen of trees, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1862)
"This gas and vapour burn with a lightless flame. ... The flame was lightless as before. I mention this fact to remove the popular error that naphthalin, ..."

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