Synonyms of unlit

unlit

adjective

ˌən-ˈlit 

as in darkened

being without light or without much light

she stumbled over something in the unlit hallway

Synonyms & Similar Words

• darkened
• dark
• murky
• black
• dim
• lightless
• dimmed
• dusky
• dusk
• obscured
• pitch-dark
• pitch-black
• obscure
• darkling
• darksome
• darkish
• somber
• gloomy
• pitchy
• stygian
• tenebrous
• caliginous
• rayless
• twilit
• moonless
• tenebrific
• crepuscular
• starless
• shadowy
• gray
• misty
• shady
• lackluster
• dulled
• pale
• cloudy
• clouded
• leaden
• foggy
• dull
• sunless
• smoggy
• fuliginous
• shadowlike
• soupy
• befogged
• beclouded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• light
• lit
• illuminated
• luminous
• bright
• brilliant
• shining
• illumined
• incandescent
• lucid
• lucent
• radiant
• sparkling
• lightsome
• glaring
• alight
• glowing
• lambent
• brightened
• effulgent
• resplendent
• beamy
• beaming
• shiny
• glossy
• lustrous
• aglitter
• moonlit
• relucent
• sunlit
• ultrabright
• agleam
• ablaze
• highlighted
• starlit
• moony
• spotlighted
• floodlit

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of unlit

Place the meat on the grill (over the drip pan if using a charcoal grill or over the unlit burner on a gas grill). — Wini Moranville, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 July 2026

Yet Karter is utterly at ease behind the mic, rasping through a wistful melody with an unlit cigarette between her fingers, a black motorcycle jacket slipping off one shoulder. — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 6 July 2026

Plans call for an unlit driving range, chipping and putting areas with gated entrance. — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026

That means half the country could be following Tennessee down an unlit path, because no one knows the full scope of its ivermectin market. — ABC News, 17 June 2026