Rayless
[reilis]
Definition
(adj.) having no parts resembling rays; not having ray flowers .
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Definition
(a.) Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, a rayless sky; rayless eyes.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Sunless, beamless, darksome, dark, black, dismal, pitchy, Cimmerian.
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Examples
- Mr. Casaubon, on the contrary, stood rayless. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Wildeve had at present the rayless outline of the sun through smoked glass, and she could say such things as that with the greatest facility. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- When the reddleman's figure could no longer be seen, Wildeve himself descended and plunged into the rayless hollow of the vale. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Night fell upon every country, night, sudden, rayless, entire. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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