rayless

Lacking rays.

Adjective

  1. Lacking rays.
  2. Lightless, gloomy.
    • Trudging onward at the last lights of evening, when a rayless night of unabating rain is creeping on. - 1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, page 1:
  3. Lacking florets.

Origin

Etymology tree English ray Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English rayless From ray + -less.

Derived

raylessness