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shadowless

shadowless

1 5.7
Does not make a shadow when light hits it
  • adjective
  • /ˈʃædoʊləs/
: sin sombra
  • The sun had set; violet, shadowless twilight yielded to darkness under the trees.
  • shadowless light
  • shadowless glow

I'm learning about how they grade cards, the centering, the corners, the print lines, the shadowless set, the grey stamps.

Examples

  • The lit area was washed out and nearly shadowless, the cabin now made plain through the trees.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Out there, beyond what his parents knew or could do anything about, seemed shadowless, empty, and indifferent.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • It was a bright gray day, the sun shining through hazy white stratus, a silver circle shedding various degrees of shadowless light.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • In the clear, shadowless noon, the garden reached past the Japanese elm and the azalea clumps to where the picket fence peeled paint to remind her of the times.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The artist preferred to work in shadowless light to capture the true colors of her subjects.

  • During the bright summer day, the pavement appeared shadowless under the direct sunlight.

  • In the shadowless room, every detail of the sculpture was visible without any dark areas.

Synonyms

shadeless
vsshadowless
5.4

Having no change in light and dark so it looks flat

refers to absence of a physical shadow rather than flat tonal appearance

Antonyms

dark
∞ 1.0

With little or no light and not bright

shadowy
22 3.3

A place that is partly dark because of shade

How Shadowed

shadowy
1 5.1
shadowed
10 3.5
shaded
13 1.6
shadowless
1 5.7
sunlit
9 1.0

Surface Forms

shadowless positive

Morphology

shadowless = shadow (transparent) = shadow + less

The meaning is directly derived from 'shadow' + 'less', indicating the absence of a shadow.

Etymology

Shadowless is made from shadow, meaning the dark shape a light makes when something blocks it, and the suffix -less, which means 'without'. So something shadowless is 'without a shadow', like a special lamp that makes everything look evenly lit.