Synonyms for rayless
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : rey-lis |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈreɪ lɪs |
Top 10 synonyms for rayless Other synonyms for the word rayless
- aphotic
- atramentous
- blackish
- caliginous
- cimmerian
- clouded
- crepuscular
- dun
- dusk
- dusky
- faint
- grimy
- ill-lighted
- indistinct
- inky
- lightless
- lurid
- murky
- nebulous
- obfuscous
- obscure
- opaque
- overcast
- pitch-black
- pitch-dark
- pitchy
- rayless
- shaded
- shadowy
- shady
- somber
- sooty
- stygian
- sunless
- tenebrous
- unlighted
- unlit
- vague
Définition of rayless
- As in dark : adj lack of light
- They all stood at the windows looking out into the rayless night.
- Extract from : « Henry IV, Makers of History » by John S. C. Abbott
- Darkness hemmed him in, in rayless and triumphant obscurity.
- Extract from : « Under the Witches' Moon » by Nathan Gallizier
- That morning there had broken over her a storm of rayless despair.
- Extract from : « Arundel » by Edward Frederic Benson
- Far down into the dim, waveless, rayless depths, Mona has gone.
- Extract from : « A Veldt Official » by Bertram Mitford
- Never before had all glint of hope been lost in rayless blackness.
- Extract from : « Under Handicap » by Jackson Gregory
- A faint flicker, dying out instantly into rayless gloom, was visible in the woman's sad eyes.
- Extract from : « Nevermore » by Rolf Boldrewood
- So there they stood, seven sorrowful little figures engulfed in the rayless despair of childhood and the bitterness of poverty.
- Extract from : « Americans All » by Various
- So thorough, that it soon ceases to be doubt, and the mind passes quickly from its dim twilight to a rayless blank.
- Extract from : « The Philosophy of Natural Theology » by William Jackson
- Then it dived, plunging straight downward to die unseen in some rayless cavern of the deeps.
- Extract from : « The Haunters of the Silences » by Charles G. D. Roberts
- I pressed my lips to his once brilliant and now rayless eyes—I swept his hair from his brow, and kissed that too.
- Extract from : « Jane Eyre » by Charlotte Bronte
Antonyms for rayless
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