unlit


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unlit

(ʌnˈlɪt)
adj
1. not having lighting; unilluminated: avoid unlit streets after dark.
2. not having been ignited: tapping his unlit cigarette.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unlit - not set afire or burningunlit - not set afire or burning; "the table was bare, the candles unlighted"; "held an unlit cigarette"
2.unlit - without illuminationunlit - without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets"
dark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"
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Translations

unlit

[ˈʌnˈlɪt] ADJ
1. (= not burning) [fire, cigarette, pipe] → sin encender, apagado
2. (= dark) [place] → no iluminado, oscuro
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unlit

[ˌʌnˈlɪt] adj
[fire, cigarette] → non allumé(e)
[room, building, street] → non éclairé(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

unlit

adj roadunbeleuchtet; lampnicht angezündet; fire, cigaretteunangezündet
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unlit

[ʌnˈlɪt] adj (lamp) → spento/a; (room) → senza luce; (road) → non illuminato/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
The air, unlit before, glows with the light of her golden crown, and her rays beam clear, whensoever bright Selene having bathed her lovely body in the waters of Ocean, and donned her far-gleaming, shining team, drives on her long-maned horses at full speed, at eventime in the mid-month: then her great orbit is full and then her beams shine brightest as she increases.
Each remembered thing in the room was disenchanted, was deadened as an unlit transparency, till her wandering gaze came to the group of miniatures, and there at last she saw something which had gathered new breath and meaning: it was the miniature of Mr.
Her brother-in-law, Colonel MacAndrew, stood in front of the fireplace, warming his back at an unlit fire.
After hot muffins, it says, "Be dull and soulless, like a beast of the field - a brainless animal, with listless eye, unlit by any ray of fancy, or of hope, or fear, or love, or life." And after brandy, taken in sufficient quantity, it says, "Now, come, fool, grin and tumble, that your fellow-men may laugh - drivel in folly, and splutter in senseless sounds, and show what a helpless ninny is poor man whose wit and will are drowned, like kittens, side by side, in half an inch of alcohol."
Like many of the man-made caves of Pellucidar, this one consisted of three chambers, one behind another, and all unlit except for what sunlight filtered in through the external opening.
It was an amorous and not unpleasant little hole when the curtains were drawn, and the lights turned on, and the gas-stove unlit. But it struck that shallow makeshift note that is so often heard in the modem dwelling-place.
Ahead of him, in the winter night, loomed a big unlit house.
Freddy, to whom she had been singing, reclined on the floor with his head against her, and an unlit pipe between his lips.
I went after him into a low unlit passage, at the back of which a ladder-like staircase rose into obscurity.
Cheyne moved nervously between his own extravagant gorgeousness and the naked necessity of the combination, an unlit cigar in his teeth, till the pitying crews forgot that he was their tribal enemy, and did their best to entertain him.
Three people died in a road crash on an unlit stretch of a major road in M'lang town, Cotabato province.