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lightlessness

/lahyt-lis/US // ˈlaɪt lɪs //

无光,无光性,无光的,无光的东西

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without light or lights; receiving no light; dark.
    • : giving no light.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as indarkness

Examples

  • Toward the end of those years, the Viking and his closest lieutenants were cast into a lightless dungeon, yet nonetheless managed to break out, kidnap the emperor’s mistress and commandeer two galleys.

  • One survivor told of being thrown into a lightless cave for six months.

  • If Bales's guilt is true, his soul must surely be a dark, lightless place.

  • As we drew further and further into that lightless land, little twists and curls of vapour wriggled over the black river-surface.

  • Through the lightless porthole he listened for the terrifying shout, "Man overboard!"

  • She quickly closed the door behind her and sped off down the line of now lightless cabins.

  • These underground kitchens must eventually die out, and our children will wonder why we used such airless, lightless places.

  • I suppose everyone at some time has imagined himself irrevocably imprisoned, cast into some lightless dungeon and left to die.