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Definition: Unlit |
UnlitAdjective1. 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 "unlit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1911. (references) |
Synonyms: UnlitSynonyms: lightless (adj), unilluminated (adj), unlighted (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: lighted (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unlit |
| English words defined with "unlit": lightless ♦ unilluminated, unlighted. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Consciousness of place came ebbing back to him slowly over a vast tract of time unlit, unfelt, unlived. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ukraine | In the days of the former Soviet Union, foreign visitors were amused by the direct simplicity of Soviet "advertising"; shops were distinguished by unlit signs stating "milk," "bread," "meat," "ice cream," etc. (references) |
Human Rights | Tunisia | A 1999 CNLT report on prison conditions described other forms of torture, including the "falaqa," which consists of suspending a prisoner by the feet and severely beating the soles of the feet; suspension of a prisoner from the metal door of his cell for hours until the prisoner loses consciousness; and confinement of the prisoner to the "cachot," a tiny, unlit cell. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unlit" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unlit" is used about 106 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% | 106 | 31,637 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unlit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pandriçuar (unenlightened), i pandezur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير مضىء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, somber, sombre, sooty), неосветен (unhallowed, unholy), незапален. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans feux, non allumé, non éclairé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unbeleuchtet (unlighted), nicht angezündet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | világítás nélküli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itunlay não iluminado. (various references) незажженный. (various references) nezapaljen, neosvetljen (unenlightened). (various references) obelyst. (various references) karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous), aydınlatılmamış (unilluminated), ışıksız (aphotic, unilluminated). (various references) garaсky (dark, darkness). (various references) không sang sủa không thắp, không có ánh sáng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unlit": unliterary. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "unlit": sunlit. (additional references) | |
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"Unlit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nult, Nurit, onlt, ucli, Ueli, Uhlig, ulit, ulntil, Ult, Ulti, umlot, unclot, Ungirt, unhit, unii, unil, Unilab, unlent, unlet, unlib, unlist, Unmlo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: until. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: lint, litu, lunt, unit. | |
-2 letters: lin, lit, nil, nit, nut, til, tin, tui, tun. | |
-3 letters: in, it, li, nu, ti, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: incult, indult, insult, lutein, luting, sunlit, tinful. | |
+2 letters: alunite, antiflu, botulin, butling, cutline, diluent, eluting, elution, fluting, inbuilt, indults, insults, inutile, linecut, linocut, louting, lunatic, luniest, lunting, lusting, luteins, lutings, nautili, nullity, nuptial, nutlike, nuttily, outlain, outline, quintal, tinfuls, tubulin, tunicle, unbuilt, unfitly, unplait, unspilt, unsplit, utensil, volutin. | |
+3 letters: ablution, abutilon, aliquant, alunites, anticult, auntlier, auntlike, blunting, blurting, botulins, bulletin, buntline, bustline, bustling, clouting, cultigen, cutlines, cuttling, diluents, diluting, dilution, elutions, exulting, faulting, flouting, flutings, glouting, glutelin, glutting, gunflint, guttling, hurtling, hustling, influent, insulant, insulate, insulted, insulter, intitule, involute, jauntily, jubilant, justling, linecuts, linguist, linocuts, locution, luminist, lunatics, lunation, lustring, lutanist, lutenist, luteolin, luxating, luxation, minutely, minutial, moulting, mulcting, multiton, nautical, nautilus, nonguilt, nubility, nuptials, outlined, outliner, outlines, outlying, platinum, plutonic, quaintly, quantile, quilting, quintals, quintile, retinula, rustling, rutilant, saluting, simulant, solution, stunsail, subtilin, sultanic, sunlight, tenurial, toluidin, tousling, touzling, trainful, tranquil, tribunal, tubulins, tumbling, tumpline, tunicles, turbinal, turtling, tussling, underlit, unitedly, unlisted, unplaits, unpliant, unpolite, unsilent, unspoilt, untidily, untilled, untilted, untimely, untitled, utensils, vaulting, veinulet, virulent, vituline, volutins, volution. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6C 69 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-.. .. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101100 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n l i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006C 0069 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580787586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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