nighted
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈnaɪtɪd/
- Archaic
:
nocturno
- Good Hamlet... cast thy nighted color off... and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
- Hamlet, cast thy nighted
- cast thy nighted
- nighted color
Examples
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Good Hamlet... cast thy nighted colour off, and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
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Walking the unfamiliar nighted streets of Central City, I tried to gauge which establishment might prove most suitable for a gentleman of my retiring nature.
Fiction book (2002) -
A nighted color.
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Hamlet... cast thy nighted color off, and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
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And she says... Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off... and let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
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And in sleep, she remembered again the bleak black plains of nighted Earth and the man who inhabited them, who had chosen to wander alone forever under a frozen sun.
Fiction book (1998) -
'Nighted Vail' is a composite consisting of every meteor captured during the night and includes the Milky Way crashing into the illuminated falls.
Blog text (20) -
But it also may be that in drenching ourselves in artificial light we have forfeited a unique way of belonging to the world through a fertile field of nighted consciousness that a medieval proverb characterized as the "mother of thoughts."
Academic text (2007) -
In solitude, I was more content simply to be; the most I'd think about would be the book I was writing, and usually I would merely drift with the night, my being astir with a sense of significance and sufficiency in my cosmos of nighted woods and starlight, and before too long I'd fall asleep again.
Academic text (2007) -
As the sun set, the town was enveloped in nighted silence, with only the sound of rustling leaves breaking the stillness.
Synonyms
You are outside when night falls and you have no light
Happening at night or in the dark
A place with less light than usual
Made less bright and hard to see by things like tears or dust
Antonyms
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nighted comes from the common word night plus the ending -ed, which often means 'made or covered by'. So nighted simply means 'covered by night' or 'overtaken by darkness', an easy way to say a place has become dark.