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lampless

lampless

1 6.4
Having no lamps or electric lights on
  • adjective
  • /ˈlæmpləs/
  • Archaic
: sin luz
  • The room was completely lampless at night.

Examples

  • I prefer a lampless environment for meditation.

  • The old house stood lampless at the end of the road, shrouded in darkness.

  • They wandered through the lampless streets at midnight.

  • During the power outage, the room remained lampless and silent.

  • The campers struggled to find their way back in the lampless darkness of the forest.

  • The old house stood quiet and lampless, casting eerie shadows in the moonlight.

  • Without a lampless lamp, she relied on the faint glow of her phone to navigate.

Synonyms

lightless
vslampless
2 5.1

Completely dark so you cannot see anything

lacks only artificial lamp light rather than all natural light

Antonyms

510 1.0

Full of strong light that makes a place easy to see

lit
171 1.0

Having enough light to see easily

Surface Forms

lampless positive

Morphology

lampless = lamp (transparent) = lamp + less

Standard, productive suffix '-less' added to a concrete noun 'lamp' yields the clear meaning 'without a lamp'.

Etymology

Lampless is made from lamp and -less, where -less means 'without', so it simply describes a place with no lamp or artificial light. Think of hopeless or careless to remember -less means 'without', which explains why a lampless street is dark.