Unillumined

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not illumined; unlit. not-comparable

    "[A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc."

Example

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"[A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc."

Etymology

From un- + illumined.

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