starless

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for starless
Adjective
  • The Orionid meteor shower will unfold against a pristinely dark, moonless sky — unlike the Perseids, whose August peak was somewhat ruined by the light cast by a waning gibbous moon that hid dimmer members of the shower from view.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • On a moonless night in January, a gargantuan turtle was digging a nest high up on a soft sand beach at Galathea Bay on the Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean.
    M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Gaze upon a twilit sky, the endless shore, the receding vista, the inside of palm to forehead.
    Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Zegler is the true find, a marvelous singer and a radiant persona, and Spielberg and Kaminski film her like a bright flare in a twilit ocean; her sheer presence papers over some of the more facile aspects of Maria’s characterization.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2021
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“Starless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starless. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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