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starless

starless

3 4.9
A sky or night with no stars you can see
  • adjective
  • /ˈstɑr.ləs/
translation icon : sin estrellas
  • 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.

Examples

  • And the moon stared down from a starless sky

  • As we camped in the mountain valley, we looked up to find nothing but a starless darkness above us.

  • 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

27 1.7

Covered with many bright stars that shine

How Starry

starry
27 1.7
clear
866 1.0
starless
3 4.9
cloudy
51 1.0

Surface Forms

starless positive

Morphology

starless = star (transparent) = star + less

Formed by the productive adjective-forming suffix '-less' meaning 'without', so the meaning 'without stars' is directly derived from 'star'.

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.