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单词 shadowless
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shadowlessadj.

/ˈʃadəʊlɪs/
Etymology: < shadow n. + -less suffix.
1.
a. Casting no shadow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > not
shadowless1638
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 6 They cast their shadowes both wayes according as the Sunne is in declination, and Ascij or shadowlesse, when Sol is Zenith.
1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui i, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 38 She had a large assortment of fairies and shadowless witches, and banshees.
1862 M. E. Braddon Lady Audley's Secret II. ix. 173 Under the bare and shadowless trees in the grey February atmosphere.
b. Of a lamp or its furniture: So constructed as to cast no shadow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [adjective] > of or resembling a lamp > with specific characteristics
polymix1694
shaded1836
shadowless1859
globed1867
Holophane1893
Aladdin1908
reflectored1912
mob cap1971
1859 F. S. Cooper Ironmongers' Catal. 77 Gas chimneys, per dozen. Shadowless ditto.
c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 111/1 Parker's Sinumbra Lamp..was called the shadowless lamp.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. p. liv Gasaliers and brackets with improved shadowless burners.
2. Having no shadows on its surface; unsheltered from the sun. Of light, the sky, etc.: Unclouded.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > [adjective]
lighteOE
lightfulc1384
lightyc1384
unshadowed1593
unshaded1638
darkless1641
undimmed1723
shadowlessc1810
undimc1838
unbedimmed1840
undark1876
undarkened1889
c1810 T. Moore Song of Hyperborean iii That shadowless orb [the moon].
1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. v. 253 Black Ethiopia, that shadowless, Beneath the Torrid burned.
1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross II. 144 There was something startlingly new and strange in that wild, shadowless landscape.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 226 And in the shadowless still morn A sense of rest to him was born.
figurative.1830 W. M. Praed My Little Cousins in Poems 42 I used to have as glad a face, As shadowless a brow.1854 ‘G. Greenwood’ Haps & Mishaps 94 A day of shadowless pleasure.

Derivatives

ˈshadowlessness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > [noun] > state of being light
lightnessOE
shadowlessness1881
shadelessness1894
nightlessness1897
1881 T. Hardy Laodicean I. i. iii. 51 He saw the dinted nose of the De Stancys distinctly outlined with Holbein shadowlessness against the blue-green of the distant wood.
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