lightless
Lacking light; unilluminated; dark.
Adjective
- Lacking light; unilluminated; dark.
- From the besieged Ardea all in post, Borne by the trustless wings of false desire, Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host, And to Collatium bears the lightless fire Which, in pale embers hid, lurks to aspire And...
- "I can’t stand much of this," said Hurstwood, whose legs ached him painfully, as he sat down upon the miserable bunk in the small, lightless chamber allotted to him. - 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
- Touch with thy flame the lightless lamp of my sorrow. - 1918, Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover’s Gift and Crossing”, in Crossing, New York: Macmillan, 7, p. 85:
Origin
From Middle English lightles, from Old English lēohtlēas, from Proto-West Germanic *leuhtalaus; equivalent to light (noun) + -less (“lacking, without”). Cognate with West Frisian ljochtleas, Dutch lichtloos, German lichtlos.