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windowless

windowless

15 3.2
A room or building that has no windows to let light in
  • adjective
  • /ˈwɪndoʊləs/
translation icon : sin ventanas
  • "De Angelo took him to a small windowless room where a young woman was waiting.
  • a windowless room

But nobody is ever able to see someone who is in a windowless room, and I can't see them.

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Examples

  • He felt claustrophobic in the windowless room, where no sunlight could reach.

  • I follow her to a windowless exam room deep in a maze.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I know I spent a lifetime in windowless office buildings drinking coffee.

  • From a locked, windowless room.

  • And so he was in a windowless box in Houston.

  • The room was windowless, deep underground, without even a video screen on the wall.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Although the consult room was windowless, he looked off into the distance as he concentrated.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Shoshona sat on a narrow bed in a windowless room, facing away from us.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • The cell I was assigned was a windowless, fifty-four square foot solid metal cube, number W-429.

    Academic text (2005)
  • And we would sit around a seminar table in a windowless, airless room in the basement under the Quincy House dining room.

Antonyms

1 3.5

A room or building that has openings that let light in

How Windowed

paned
1 4.5
windowed
1 3.5
windowless
15 3.2

Surface Forms

windowless positive

Morphology

windowless = window (transparent) = window + less

The adjective is directly derived by adding the productive suffix '-less' to the noun 'window', yielding the literal meaning 'without windows'.

Etymology

Windowless is made from window and -less. The word window originally meant 'wind eye' from an old Norse phrase because it was an opening for wind and light, and -less means 'without' as in hopeless, so windowless means 'without windows'.