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Without visible stars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- The starless night was very dark.
- 1940, Robert Hayden, "Sonnet to E.," lines 1-2, in Heart-Shape in the Dust, cited in "Robert Hayden: The Apprenticeship: Heart-Shape in the Dust (1940)", African-American Poets, Volume 1: 1700s—1940s, edited by Harold Bloom, Infobase, 2009, p. 15, Beloved, there have been starless times when I / Have longed to join the alien hosts of death,
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unstarry
Antonyms: none provided
not starry; having no stars or starlike objects
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: starry
From Middle English sterreles, equivalent to star + -less. Piecewise doublet of asterless.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
անաստղ
(anastġ)
— without visible stars
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Bulgarian:
беззвезден
(bezzvezden)
— without visible stars
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Finnish:
tähdetön
— without visible stars
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German:
sternenlos
— without visible stars
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Greek:
άναστερος
(ánasteros)
— without visible stars
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Ancient Greek:
ἄναστρος
(ánastros)
— without visible stars
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Hungarian:
csillagtalan
— without visible stars
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Kazakh:
жұлдызсыз
(jūldyzsyz)
— without visible stars
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Lithuanian:
bežvaigždis
— without visible stars
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Macedonian:
безѕвезден
(bezdzvezden)
— without visible stars
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Persian:
بیستاره
(bi-setâre)
— without visible stars
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Polish:
bezgwiezdny
— without visible stars
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Russian:
беззвёздный
(bezzvjózdnyj)
— without visible stars
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Turkish:
yıldızsız
— without visible stars
