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Definitions: Lightless |
LightlessAdjective1. Giving no light; "lightless stars `visible' only to radio antennae". 2. Without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lightless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
Synonyms: LightlessSynonyms: unilluminated (adj), unlighted (adj), unlit (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lightless |
| English words defined with "lightless": unilluminated, unlighted, unlit. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lightless": lightless zone. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | It was lightless in the cave. |
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| "Lightless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lightless" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "lightless": lightless zone. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "lightless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | afotisk zone (aphotic zone, lightless zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afotische zone (aphotic zone, lightless zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | afoottinen vyöhyke (aphotic zone, lightless zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | zone aphotique (lightless zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | lichtlos, dunkel (abstruse, black, bleak, dark, darkness, dim, dingy, dismal, dreamy, dreary, dubious, dusky, gloomy, grave, murky, obscure, obscurely, obscureness, obscurity, opaque, recondite, shadily, shady, somber, somberly, sombre, swarthily, swarthy, tenebrous, vague, vaguely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αφωτική ζώνη (aphotic zone, lightless zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fénytelen (lack-lustre, lustreless, mat, pallid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza luce, privo di luci. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightlesslay zona sem luz (aphotic zone, lightless zone), zona afótica (aphotic zone, lightless zone). (various references) zona afótica (aphotic zone, lightless zone). (various references) afotisk zon (aphotic zone, lightless zone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "lightless": flightless. (additional references) | |
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"Lightless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lytles, pightles, rightless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "lightless" (pronounced 'Light"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-l-l-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hiltless, sleights. | |
-2 letters: hitless, legists, listels, sleighs, sleight, slights. | |
-3 letters: eights, heists, illest, islets, istles, legist, legits, lights, lisles, listel, shells, shiels, shiest, shills, sights, sleigh, sliest, slight, stiles, stills, thesis, thills. | |
-4 letters: eight, gelts, gests, gills, gilts, gists, heils, heist, hells, hests, hills, hilts, hists, isles, islet, istle, legit, light, lilts, lisle, lists. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-l-l-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: flightless. | |
+2 letters: sightlessly. | |
+3 letters: weightlessly. | |
+5 letters: delightfulness, flugelhornists, legislatorship, lichenologists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 67 68 74 6C 65 73 73 |
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