unlighted
- adjective
- /ʌnˈlaɪtɪd/
- Two unlighted lamps sat on plain wooden tables.
- an unlighted runway
- an unlighted highway
Examples
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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.
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She hesitated at the unlighted entrance, unsure of what was inside.
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The unlighted street was empty and quiet at midnight.
Synonyms
Without any light or not burning
Completely dark so you cannot see anything
Not lit and dark
Antonyms
How Lit
Surface Forms
Morphology
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'.