Synonyms of unlit

unlit

adjective

ˌən-ˈlit 

as in darkened

being without light or without much light

she stumbled over something in the unlit hallway

Synonyms & Similar Words

• darkened
• dark
• murky
• black
• dim
• lightless
• dimmed
• dusky
• dusk
• obscured
• pitch-dark
• sombre
• pitch-black
• obscure
• darkling
• darksome
• darkish
• somber
• gloomy
• pitchy
• stygian
• tenebrous
• caliginous
• rayless
• twilit
• moonless
• tenebrific
• crepuscular
• starless
• grey
• shadowy
• gray
• misty
• shady
• lackluster
• dulled
• pale
• clouded
• cloudy
• leaden
• dull
• foggy
• sunless
• smoggy
• fuliginous
• shadowlike
• soupy
• befogged
• beclouded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lighted
• light
• lit
• illuminated
• luminous
• bright
• brilliant
• shining
• illumined
• incandescent
• lucid
• lucent
• radiant
• sparkling
• lightsome
• glaring
• alight
• glowing
• lambent
• brightened
• effulgent
• resplendent
• beamy
• beaming
• shiny
• glossy
• lustrous
• aglitter
• spotlit
• moonlit
• relucent
• sunlit
• ultrabright
• agleam
• highlighted
• ablaze
• starlit
• moony
• spotlighted
• floodlit
• floodlighted

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of unlit

The women weigh, bundle, and package the noodles in a large room with plywood tables, concrete floors, and a couple of usually unlit light bulbs overhead. —Anne F. Thurston, Foreign Affairs, 23 Feb. 2016

Seemingly as a gag to portray a darker Buddy, Ferrell held what appeared to be an unlit cigarette in his mouth and pretended to smoke it. —Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024

Buddy was seen at the Kings game looking rather disheveled, with what appeared to be an unlit cigarette in his mouth and drinking what appeared to be a beer. —Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024

But rather than sporting a big smile and radiating festive cheer, Ferrell looked hilariously weary and unshaven, with an unlit cigarette dangling between his scowling lips. —Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2024