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# lightless

«lightless» in Mova's school dictionary: **With no light at all; completely dark** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (lightless)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lightless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lightless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.