lightless
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for lightless
Synonyms
black, caliginous, dark, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), stygian, tenebrific, tenebrous, unlit
Antonyms
bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous
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Examples of lightless in a Sentence
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These tiny waves gradually stretched to hundreds of thousands of light years across as the expanding, lightless universe cooled down following the super-hot instant of inflation. — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, "A Bold Critic of the Big Bang’s ‘Smoking Gun’," 3 July 2014 The other twisted and whined at the end of a leash that Contreras clutched as the gales threatened to suck the mutt away into the lightless night. — Martin Kuz, San Antonio Express-News, "After the hurricane, the storm within," 9 Apr. 2018 More art on the austere lower mezzanine, and on the platforms (another level down), would have enlivened the vast and lightless space. — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, "New York's Newest Subway Station: a Gateway to Dubai-on-the-Hudson," 15 Sep. 2015 I was forced to conduct a salvage operation that would take me to the lightless depths of the analog age. — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, "A Personal Foray Into the Long-Lost Pynchon Tapes," 19 May 2017 Around the set and throughout Fox News’s subterranean Midtown newsroom, a lightless former Sam Goody, staffers watched the display with mixed and fraught emotions. — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, "Exclusive: After Ailes’s Shocking Death, Fox News Grieves—and Breathes a Sigh of Relief," 19 May 2017 Black holes will evaporate, matter itself will eventually decay into radiation and the universe will be a cold, lightless, lifeless place for the rest of eternity. — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, "When Will It be 'Game Over' For the Universe?," 6 Feb. 2017 In the city, young homeless people can be chameleons blending in with average New Yorkers by the bright lights of Times Square, the lightless halls of stations and terminals, and the pitch dark of alleys. — Nikita Stewart, New York Times, "Homeless Young People of New York, Overlooked and Underserved," 5 Feb. 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lightless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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