rayless

[rey-lis] / ˈreɪ lɪs /

ADJECTIVE

dark

Synonyms

STRONGEST

black cloudy darkened dim dingy drab dull foggy gloomy misty murky overcast shadowy somber

STRONG

dun faint

WEAK

aphotic atramentous blackish caliginous cimmerian clouded crepuscular dusky ill-lighted indistinct inky lightless lurid nebulous obfuscous obscure opaque pitch-black pitch-dark pitchy shaded shady sooty stygian sunless tenebrous unlighted unlit vague

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bright cheerful clean clear distinct good happy intelligent joyful light luminous smart sparkling sunny vivacious

WEAK

apparent brilliant encouraging evident hopeful illuminated lucid manifest moral plain pleased radiant shining visible vivid

Example Sentences

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I pressed my lips to his once brilliant and now rayless eyes—I swept his hair from his brow, and kissed that too.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Over the edge of the mesa the yellow globe was bulging, rayless for the moment, round and full.

From In the Shadow of the Hills by Shedd, George C. (George Clifford)

Will this awful, rayless night never cease—this thick blackness, this horrible silence?

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

And thou canst make that desert mind Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose; Thou canst illume that rayless void Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o’er a slumbering world.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

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