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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