as in darkened
being without light or without much light
wondered what might be lurking in the lightless corners of the basement
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Recent Examples of lightless
Fall asleep and dream about being slowly forced, as if by some mechanized peristalsis, through the digestive tract of a huge synthetic worm that then deposits me into a lightless industrial kitchen.
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Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
While rappelling into some supposedly haunted mines in Chile in 2010, Gates and a cameraman got trapped in a lightless mine shaft.
—Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
The boy grows up in the lightless void before managing to escape.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
At night, lightless streets turn into treacherous obstacle courses, especially after snow and rain.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
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Jay Katsir, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2025
While rappelling into some supposedly haunted mines in Chile in 2010, Gates and a cameraman got trapped in a lightless mine shaft.
—Vulture, 5 Jan. 2024
The boy grows up in the lightless void before managing to escape.
—Noah Berlatsky, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
At night, lightless streets turn into treacherous obstacle courses, especially after snow and rain.
—Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lightless
Adjective
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She’s talked up her push to convert darkened streetlights, many of them stripped of their copper wire, to solar power.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
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In the darkened foyer, Ember contemplated this unassuming bit of paper, momentarily paralyzed by a mixture of dread and excitement stirred together, an overpowering sensation that oozed from the crown of her head, down the length of her body, then hardened, like a soft golden resin becoming solid.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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Its dark terrain is constantly changing due to lava flows from Kilauea or Mauna Loa – two of the most active volcanoes in the world, according to the National Park Service website.—
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
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Some find the last scene ambiguous, multivalent; some dark; others comic.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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The exact outcome of that mini-summit remains murky.—
Andrew P. Collins,
The Drive,
11 June 2026
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Some answers, though, fell on the edge of this somewhat murky threshold—thus the slight toss-up in final scores.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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“Lightless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lightless. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.
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