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nonlight

nonlight adjective: not light (in various senses).

nonlight: not light (in various senses)
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Adjective

nonlight (not comparable)

  1. Not light (in various senses).
    • a nonlight beer

Noun

nonlight (countable and uncountable, plural nonlights)

  1. Something which is not light or lacks light (in various senses).
    • In the nonlight that prevailed there, Kimbrough's face under its strands of black hair looked even paler than it did outside.1978 [1974], Alfred Andersch, translated by Richard Winston and Clara Winston, Winterspelt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 259
    • Of the 92% of the transports that did not involve the use of lights and sirens, nearly one-half received some advance life support intervention either prior to or during transport. There were no adverse events associated with the nonlights and siren transports.2008, Nels D. Sanddal, Steve Albert, Joseph D. Hansen, Douglas F. Kupas, “Contributing Factors and Issues Associated with Rural Ambulance Crashes: Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography”, in...

Forms of nonlight

pluralnonlights

Origin of nonlight

From non- + light.

Questions about nonlight

What does nonlight mean?
Nonlight means not light (in various senses).
What part of speech is nonlight?
Nonlight can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonlight in the dictionary

  1. nonlifer
  2. nonlifers
  3. nonligand
  4. nonligatable
  5. nonligated
  6. nonlight
  7. nonlighted
  8. nonlights
  9. nonlignified
  10. nonlimbate
  11. nonlimbic

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