Meanings
comparative more shadowless · superlative most shadowless
- Lacking a shadow.
[…] fluorescent lighting has been adopted for the upper deck lounges and smokerooms, so giving shadowless lighting.
1947 September and October, “First Southern Railway Post-War Vessel”, in Railway Magazine, page 2941 more example
There is something in the shadowless sky and the unbroken moonshine which mocks us with repose. We have no part in it; our own unrest has no sympathy with the blue and spiritual horizon, whose hope is not with this life.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 313
Origin
- Englishshadow
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishshadowless
Translations
Finnish varjoton
- varjotonlacking a shadow
Greek ανίσκιωτος
- ανίσκιωτος (anískiotos)lacking a shadow
Cite this entry
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