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# lightless

adjective (lightless)

«lightless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

With no light at all; completely dark. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lightless/#m1)

### In the lessons

A literary word in stories and science: deep caves and the deep ocean are lightless, so animals there may be blind or make their own light. It tells the reader a place is dark and often frightening.

### Examples

- The miners worked in lightless tunnels. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lightless/#x1)
- Deep in the ocean is a lightless world. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lightless/#x2)
- The Mole's underground home was lightless at night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lightless/#x3)
- Fish in lightless caves often have no eyes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lightless/#x4)
- The lightless windows showed the house was empty. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lightless/#x5)
- A black hole is so strong that it seems lightless. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lightless/#x6)

### Note

Light + -less (without). More common words: dark, unlit, pitch-dark.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lightless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lightless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lightless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lightless.html) on Mova free.