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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unlit
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unlit parking lot
▪ Behind the gasoline pumps the unlit garage stood like a huge black shadow.
▪ The path was unlit, and she needed a torch to find her way.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Carefully, she descended into an unknown, unlit room.
▪ Heart thudding uncomfortably in my chest, I ran up the unlit stone stairs of the tenement.
▪ One day the fire remained unlit because every member of the Hauxwell family was stricken with flu and unable to move.
▪ One of them, doubtless the Substitute Prosecutor, was on his feet, playing with an unlit pipe.
▪ The horrific attack happened in Middlesbrough as the victim was walking along an unlit path.
▪ Too many bright lights can create a glaring contrast between the lit and unlit areas.
▪ Within minutes the crowd had dispersed, leaving the frontage of the Theater an der Wien unlit and deserted.
Wiktionary
unlit

a. Not lit

WordNet
unlit
  1. adj. not set afire or burning; "the table was bare, the candles unlighted"; "held an unlit cigarette" [syn: unlighted] [ant: lighted]

  2. without illumination; "came up the lightless stairs"; "the unilluminated side of Mars"; "through dark unlighted (or unlit) streets" [syn: lightless, unilluminated, unlighted]

Usage examples of "unlit".

He always came home sober, not disturbing his daughter, despite the fact that he had his first anisette when he awoke and continued chewing the end of his unlit cigar and drinking at regular intervals throughout the day.

Blade showed her into a broad workroom with a large table in the center, a battered secretaire in the corner, and a squat black coal stove on the wall to her right, which sat unlit.

The corporal of the bridge guard came forward to meet them, puzzled but unalarmed, his sword sheathed and the match on his pistols unlit.

Only Captain MacDonald, who sat beside him, seemed unchilled, but he was wrapped in a great tartan blanket and had the extra warmth of his pipe, rarely unlit in the hours that they had waited.

The cul-de-sac had become impossible: unglowing, unlit, uncoloured visibility in the absolute dark.

A couple of small tables held unlit candles in plain silver holders, utility uncombined with any sort of beauty.

The leaves of the volume with rubric unwrit, The temple in times without prayer, without praise, The altar unset and the candle unlit.

The fog appeared less menacing on the main road than it had in the unlit graveyard, though the high amber street-lights and the flashing Belisha beacons at the zebra crossing looked like the Martian machines out of War of the Worlds.

He had a cigarette in his fingers, unlit despite the layer of tobacco that hung like a fogbank in the thick air.

The doors opened onto the unpartitioned space of a fitness centre, machines bulking insect-like and menacing in the unlit gloom.

There was a little ritual grumbling when the wakers emerged to an unlit fire and this was followed by a vague presumption that he had probably gone to fetch water from a nearby stream.

On lower tables to either side were large unlit candles and statuettes of many of the Egyptian gods: queenly Isis, whip-wielding Osiris, jackal-jawed Anubis and cat-headed Bast herself.

A few nights after the remarkable Bloodmobile incident, Point Pleasant police officer Harold Harmon was making a routine patrol through the dismal, unlit TNT area when a dark object hovering a few feet above a small pond caught his eye.

After cursing that they were putting his horse at risk for the distemper, which the board of health had warned was imminent after a review of stable conditions, Colby sped through small avenues and down unlit frozen pastures.

Come, and molest not the otter that whistles Unlit by the moon, 'mid the wet winter bristles Of willow, half-drowned in the fattening floods.