skylessadj.
/ˈskʌɪləs/, U.S. /ˈskaɪləs/ Without a sky; having a dark, overcast, or cloudy sky. Also: lacking a view of the sky.
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1846 Northern Star & National Trades Jrnl. 13 Sept. 3/2 Methought I voyaged in the bark of Death—Himself the helmsman—on a skyless sea.
1848 C. Kingsley Yeast in Fraser's Mag. July 104/2 A soulless, skyless, catarrhal day.
1888 G. Gissing Life's Morning III. xxii. 208 In what black, skyless, leafless town was she pursuing her lonely life?
1920 Harper's Mag. 1 Oct. 681/1 You have looked out of skyless windows on the third floor.
1985 G. A. Effinger Nick of Time (1987) 140 This place was still part of that skyless, sunless, earthless universe.
2015 Sydney Morning Herald 28 Feb. 10 A skyless urban street.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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