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nighted

nighted adjective: dark; clouded. Also the simple past and past participle of night.

Adjective

nighted (comparative more nighted, superlative most nighted)

  1. 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...
    • 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
  2. Overtaken by night; belated.

Also used as

nighted is also the simple past and past participle of night.

Forms of nighted

comparativemore nighted
superlativemost nighted

Origin of nighted

From night (“noun sense”) + -ed.

From night (“verb sense”) + -ed.

Questions about nighted

What does nighted mean?
Nighted means dark; clouded.
What part of speech is nighted?
Nighted is an adjective.

Words near nighted in the dictionary

  1. nightdreaming
  2. nightdreams
  3. nightdress
  4. nightdressed
  5. nightdresses
  6. nighted
  7. nighten
  8. nightened
  9. nightening
  10. nightens
  11. nighter

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