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

I sit in darkness and behold no light; Over my soul the waves of agony Have gone, and left me in a rayless night.

From Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Various

And the sun looked cold and rayless, yet at night the stars shone out with extraordinary brilliancy.

From The Cruise of the Snowbird A Story of Arctic Adventure by Stables, Gordon

As for Roland himself, the first gleam of light since his arrest a month ago now darted in upon the rayless gloom of his soul.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

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

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