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unlighted

unlighted

1 6.3
A street or area that is dark because no lamps are on
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈlaɪtɪd/
translation icon : sin luz
  • Two unlighted lamps sat on plain wooden tables.
  • an unlighted runway
  • an unlighted highway

Examples

  • She'd had conferences with several students, one of them the ebullient charmer Reverend Eldridge, and now she was alone and realized that the corridor outside her office was unlighted.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Elaeli was awake, though it took him a moment to spot her in the unlighted room.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • One individual lay on a mattress in an unlighted cell, listening.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • He's asleep in the unlighted room.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • When he tilted his head back, he could see only a couple of floors into the unlighted shaft.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I rang the bell and peered through the screen into the unlighted front hall.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • The unlighted corridor felt eerie as I walked through it.

  • She hesitated at the unlighted entrance, unsure of what was inside.

  • The unlighted street was empty and quiet at midnight.

Synonyms

unlit
vsunlighted
6 2.7

Without any light or not burning

focuses only on absence of light, not the burning state
lightless
vsunlighted
2 5.1

Completely dark so you cannot see anything

allows mere absence of illumination rather than complete darkness
unilluminated
vsunlighted
7.3

Not lit and dark

is the same meaning but offered as an alternative wording

Antonyms

1.4

Made bright by lamps or electric bulbs

Lit up by electric lights so it can be seen at night

How Lit

bright
459 1.0
lit
1.0
dim
62 1.0
unlighted
1 6.3

Surface Forms

unlighted positive

Morphology

unlighted = lighted (transparent) = un + light + ed

The meaning is directly derived from 'lighted' with the addition of the prefix 'un-' indicating the opposite state.

Etymology

Unlighted comes from the parts un- meaning 'not' and light meaning 'to shine' or 'to give light', so it describes a place or object that is 'not illuminated' and has 'no light'.