Antonyms for rayless


Grammar : Adj
Spell : rey-lis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈreɪ lɪs


Definition of rayless

  • As in dark : adj lack of light
Example sentences :
  • 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

Synonyms for rayless

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