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Definition: Unlighted |
UnlightedAdjective1. Not set afire or burning; "the table was bare, the candles unlighted"; "held an unlit cigarette". 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 "unlighted" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1829. (references) |
Synonyms: UnlightedSynonyms: lightless (adj), unilluminated (adj), unlit (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: lighted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unlighted |
| English words defined with "unlighted": lightless ♦ unilluminated, unlit. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unlighted": Charcoal ♦ winter buoy. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Inviting the undertaker. Ignore the fact that pedestrians die in rural districts due to unlighted highways, speeding cars and failure to walk facing the traffic. Be right. Walk left. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Unlighted" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unlighted" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unlighted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | valaisematon. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | unbeleuchtet (unlit). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | meg nem gyújtott, kivilágítatlan. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightedunlay неосвещенный (unilluminated, unlit). (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Unlighted" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inlightned, ulighted, unblighted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-i-l-n-t-u" | |
-2 letters: delight, diluent, dueling, eluding, eluting, glinted, hindgut, indulge, lighted, lighten, tingled. | |
-3 letters: dentil, dilute, dingle, dunite, engild, englut, gentil, glutei, gluten, guiled, gulden, gunite, hilted, hinged, hinted, hunted, indult, length, lunged, lunted, lutein, luting, nidget, nighed, tinged, tingle, united, untied. | |
-4 letters: deign, dhuti, dight, dinge, eight, elint, gelid, glide, glint, glued, guide, guild. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-i-l-n-t-u" | |
+3 letters: doughnutlike, nightclubbed, thunderingly. | |
+4 letters: underclothing, unenlightened. | |
+5 letters: delightfulness, underclothings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6C 69 67 68 74 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-.. .. --. .... - . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n l i g h t e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006C 0069 0067 0068 0074 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558078757374867170 |
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