Moonless (Adjective)
Meaning
Without a moon or a visible moon; "the dark moonless night"; "a moonless planet".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The town was eerily quiet on that moonless night, as if the darkness itself was watching.
- Astronomers had difficulty navigating the densely star-filled sky of the moonless planet.
- The ancient civilization relied heavily on the position of the stars to calculate the changing of the seasons, especially during the moonless period of the month.
- The hikers carried lanterns to illuminate their path through the dark moonless forest.
- In the city, the only light on a moonless night came from the millions of twinkling lights that seemed to stretch on forever, drowning out the darkness.