lampless

1 6.4

Having no lamps or electric lights on

adjective
/ˈlæmpləs/

Archaic

: sin luz

The room was completely lampless at night.

Examples

I prefer a lampless environment for meditation.
The old house stood lampless at the end of the road, shrouded in darkness.
They wandered through the lampless streets at midnight.
During the power outage, the room remained lampless and silent.
The campers struggled to find their way back in the lampless darkness of the forest.
The old house stood quiet and lampless, casting eerie shadows in the moonlight.
Without a lampless lamp, she relied on the faint glow of her phone to navigate.

Synonyms

lightless

vslampless

2 5.1

Completely dark so you cannot see anything

lacks only artificial lamp light rather than all natural light

Antonyms

bright

510 1.0

Full of strong light that makes a place easy to see

lit

171 1.0

Having enough light to see easily

Surface Forms

lampless positive

Morphology

lampless = lamp (transparent) = lamp + less

Standard, productive suffix '-less' added to a concrete noun 'lamp' yields the clear meaning 'without a lamp'.

Etymology

Lampless is made from lamp and -less, where -less means 'without', so it simply describes a place with no lamp or artificial light. Think of hopeless or careless to remember -less means 'without', which explains why a lampless street is dark.