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lightless.

Adjective
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MEANING

Receiving or containing no light, or described as having no visible illumination.

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  • a lightless corridor
  • a lightless chamber
  • a lightless night

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The lift stopped at a lightless floor no one had mentioned.
A lightless chamber opened beyond the reach of her lamp.

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Primary category: setting. Forms: Usually non-gradable for absence of light; use darker for ordinary comparisons of brightness. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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