unlighted


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unlighted

(ʌnˈlaɪtɪd)
adj
1. not made to start burning; unlit; unignited
2. not made bright or light with electric lighting or similar; dark; unilluminated
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unlighted - not set afire or burningunlighted - not set afire or burning; "the table was bare, the candles unlighted"; "held an unlit cigarette"
lighted, lit - set afire or burning; "the lighted candles"; "a lighted cigarette"; "a lit firecracker"
2.unlighted - without illuminationunlighted - without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"
dark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
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The little piano is dumb night after night, its candles unlighted, and there is no one to play Chopin to us now as the day dies, and the shadows stoop out of their corners to listen in vain.
I then glanced up at the stories above, discovering that the third was apparently unlighted, and so decided to make my entrance to the building from that point.
The three machines stood like weird night monsters at the gravelled foot of the wide stairway under the unlighted porte-cochere.
To navigate a vessel through the reefs and shoals and passages and unlighted coasts of the coral seas is a man's work in itself.
In the doorway of a darkened hardware store a man leaned, with an unlighted cigar in his mouth.
Most of the corridors are entirely unlighted. The Mahars can see quite well in semidarkness.
Martin Eden, with blood still crawling from contact with his brother-in-law, felt his way along the unlighted back hall and entered his room, a tiny cubbyhole with space for a bed, a wash- stand, and one chair.
John Jasper stands looking down upon him, his unlighted pipe in his hand, for some time, with a fixed and deep attention.
A crystal chandelier, which had once lent a fascinating illusion to the game of Monte, hung unlighted in the broad hall, where a few other bizarre and public articles were relegated.
A great battleship, forging silent and unlighted through the dark night, loomed close astern.
Yes, there it was far in the north, dimly outlined against the dark void of space that stretched illimitably beyond it, the faint suggestion of a flier passing, unlighted, through the Barsoomian night.
Following a moment or two after Shandy came another figure stealthily across the ladder, and as Norman of Torn and his followers left the little room this figure pushed quietly through the window and followed the great outlaw down the unlighted corridor.