lightless
- adjective
- /ˈlaɪt.ləs/
- As they wandered through the lightless cave, they could barely see their hands in front of their faces.
- a lightless room
- the lightless depths
- a lightless sky
Examples
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The city was drowned because it existed at the bottom of a lightless ocean.
Fiction book (2002) -
The air around us was cold, green, and lightless except for our breaths.
Fiction book (1991) -
Somewhere in the lightless space of his dreams, he heard his father call out to him.
Fiction book (1994) -
There was nothing at all remarkable about her, except her lightless eyes.
Fiction book (1990) -
One was opened, and they were locked in a frozen, lightless room.
Fiction book (1992) -
Now they were making another choice in a silent, lightless wilderness.
Fiction book (1990) -
In the cold, lightless depths, there's very little oxygen.
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"What enemy?" He stared out at the vast, lightless expanse of desert.
Fiction book (1991) -
The rest of the crowd walked behind him under the lightless sky, treading on the stones in fearful silence.
Fiction book (1995) -
Five hundred years ago, a mother hid with her three children in the family's dank, lightless cantina in Marina di Campo.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
The time when there is little or no light
Completely dark with no light at all
Completely dark with no light
Without any light or not burning
There is no light at all, like a room with no windows
A street or area that is dark because no lamps are on
Not lit and dark
A place with less light than usual
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Lightless is made of light and -less, where -less means 'without', just like in hopeless or endless. So lightless means 'without light', an easy image is a room or cave that is completely dark.