lightless

Other forms of lightless

comparative

lightlesser·

superlative

lightlessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lightless

What does lightless mean?

lightless means "giving no light". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lightless?

lightless has 2 syllables and divides as light-less under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lightless?

Close synonyms include unilluminated, unlighted, unlit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lightless a common word?

lightless is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.