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Unlit

Definition: Unlit

Unlit

Adjective

1. 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: Unlit

Synonyms: lightless (adj), unilluminated (adj), unlighted (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: lighted (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unlit

English words defined with "unlit": lightlessunilluminated, unlighted. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unlit

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Unlit

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unlit

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Unlit

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%10631,637

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unlit

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

   

Portuguese

  

não iluminado. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

незажженный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nezapaljen, neosvetljen (unenlightened). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

obelyst. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Turkmen 

  

garaсky (dark, darkness). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không sang sủa không thắp, không có ánh sáng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Unlit

Derivations

Words beginning with "unlit": unliterary. (additional references)

Words ending with "unlit": sunlit. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: Unlit

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unlit


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 6C 69 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .-..    ..    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101100 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#108 &#105 &#116

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5580787586

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INDEX

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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