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rayless

rayless adjective: lacking rays.

Adjective

rayless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking rays.
  2. Lightless, gloomy.
    • Trudging onward at the last lights of evening, when a rayless night of unabating rain is creeping on.1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, page 1
  3. Lacking florets.

Origin of rayless

From ray + -less.

Words formed from rayless

Questions about rayless

What does rayless mean?
Rayless means lacking rays.
What part of speech is rayless?
Rayless is an adjective.

Words near rayless in the dictionary

  1. Rayleigh-Jeans law
  2. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities
  3. Rayleigh-Taylor instability
  4. rayleighs
  5. rayles
  6. rayless
  7. raylessness
  8. raylet
  9. raylets
  10. raylike
  11. rayling

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