different between lightless vs unlighted
lightless
English
Etymology
From Middle English lightles, from Old English l?ohtl?as; equivalent to light (noun) +? -less (“lacking, without”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: l?t?l?s
Adjective
lightless (not comparable)
- Lacking light; unilluminated; dark.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, stanza 1,[1]
- 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 girdle with embracing flames the waist
- Of Collatine’s fair love, Lucrece the chaste.
- 1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie:
- "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.
- 1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Lover’s Gift and Crossing, New York: Macmillan, Crossing, 7, p. 85,[2]
- Touch with thy flame the lightless lamp of my sorrow.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 5,
- Knocked about on the wooden seat of the rackety rickety dim-lit bus, going past silent fields and past houses which were lightless and dead or bright and private, Mr Biswas no longer thought of the afternoon’s mission, but of the night ahead.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, stanza 1,[1]
Derived terms
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lightless From the web:
- what lightless mean
- what does lightness mean
- what drops lightless silk
- what is lightless gel
- what does flightless mean
- what does lightless
- what is a lifeless person
unlighted
English
Etymology
un- +? lighted
Adjective
unlighted (not comparable)
- Not lit.
Translations
Anagrams
- indulgeth, undelight
unlighted From the web:
- what does unlighted mean
- enlightened means
- what does delighted mean
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