Meanings
nighted1
comparative more nighted · superlative most nighted
- Dark; clouded.
Queen Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]1 more example
To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law—to be linked with the vast outside—to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate—surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!
1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness - Overtaken by night; belated.
nighted2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of night
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveovertaken by night or darkness
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
nighted · verb
- Proto-Indo-European*nókʷts
- Proto-Germanic*nahts
- Proto-West Germanic*naht
- Proto-West Germanic*nahti
- Old Englishniht
- Middle Englishnyght
- Englishnight
- Englishnighted
From night (“verb sense”) + -ed.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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