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Definition of lightless:
Synonyms:
pitchy, without light, dark, stygian, unlighted, dusk, caliginous, tenebrific, obscured, darkish, tenebrous, darksome, pitch-black, darkling, unilluminated, unlit, unseeable, dimmed, invisible, rayless, pitch-dark.
Usage examples:
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To the East, as I stood there in the quietness of the Sleeping- Time on the One Thousandth Plateau, I heard a far, dreadful sound, down in the lightless East; and, presently, again- a strange, dreadful laughter, deep as a low thunder among the mountains.
- "The Night Land", William Hope Hodgson. -
An hour had elapsed; it was now midnight; the moon rode high, a cold white disk against a background of sapphire velvet, its pellucid rays revealing with disheartening distinctness the inanimate and lightless roadside hamlet called Greenfields; its general store and postoffice, its soi- disant hotel, its straggling line of dilapidated habitations, all wrapped in silence profound and impenetrable.
- "The Brass Bowl", Louis Joseph Vance. -
Before him in the blackness there was- or perhaps there had been for some time- a blue glow, almost as lightless as the surrounding dark, but blue and physically deep for all that.
- "Breaking Point", James E. Gunn.