moonless
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- adjective
- /ˈmuːnləs/
:
sin luna
- On a moonless night, the stars shone brightly against the dark sky.
- a moonless night
- a moonless sky
Grey drywall accepts a coat of moonless midnight sable.
- Grey drywall accepts a coat of moonless midnight sable.
Examples
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On a moonless night, they'd build a beach fire.
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From the balcony, the moonless sky seemed claustrophobic, but the lightning bugs winked little glimmers of hope.
Fiction book (1999) -
Here, the stars are magnificent: sharp and clean in a moonless sky.
Fiction book (1993) -
So on a moonless night, you, the unaided eye, can see a couple of thousand stars.
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The sea was calm; in the moonless sky, the Milky Way pointed towards a new life to the north.
Fiction book (1994) -
The night was moonless, overcast, with a promise of autumn in the hill air.
Fiction book (1993) -
Pierre swept into Hidden Lodge on Titchen Creek late on a moonless night.
Fiction book (1996) -
Under a moonless sky, we fumble our way out of our wooded dormitory.
Fiction book (1995) -
On this moonless night, the pervading darkness turns the buildings and surrounding mountains into unrecognizable black masses.
Academic text (2003) -
Summer glanced around at the black-shrouded vista of mountains, trees, and moonless sky, and shivered.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
A time when the moon is not visible in the sky between the old and new moon
Antonyms
How Bright
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Moonless is simply moon + less, where less means 'without'. So moonless literally means 'without moon' and describes a night or sky that has no moon or moonlight.