starless
- adjective
- /ˈstɑr.ləs/
- Hair like a starless sky, eyes just as dark.
- starless sky
- starless night
Until all that remained was a starless void in the hollow husk once known as Chris Wallace.
- Until all that remained was a starless void in the hollow husk once known as Chris Wallace.
Examples
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And the moon stared down from a starless sky
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As we camped in the mountain valley, we looked up to find nothing but a starless darkness above us.
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Max said that it now lay at the very edge of the starless black rent in the sky.
Fiction book (1995) -
Where he was, the sky was black and starless in the city.
Fiction book (1990) -
The sky is pale, starless, no match for the life below.
Academic text (2010) -
It's starless above, meaning we'll wake to more clouds and more rain.
Fiction book (2000) -
And the sky turned black as a moonless, starless night.
Fiction book (1993) -
The walls and towers of France's most infamous prison rise to meet a starless sky.
Fiction book (1993) -
Night rises over the waves, thick and starless and black, with only the vaguest point of light from a ship in the far distance off Montauk Point.
Fiction book (2001) -
Above their heads, the Panasonic factory has faded to a benign shape in Tokyo's starless night sky.
Fiction book (1996)
Antonyms
How Starry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Starless is made of star and the ending -less, which means 'without', just like hopeless means 'without hope'. So starless means 'without stars', a sky or night that has no visible stars.