"lightless" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1900, Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie",
          "text": "\"I can’t stand much of this,\" said Hurstwood, whose legs ached him painfully, as he sat down upon the miserable bunk in the small, lightless chamber allotted to him.",
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        {
          "ref": "1918, Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover’s Gift and Crossing”, in Crossing, New York: Macmillan, 7, p. 85",
          "text": "Touch with thy flame the lightless lamp of my sorrow.",
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          "ref": "1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 5",
          "text": "Knocked about on the wooden seat of the rackety rickety dim-lit bus, going past silent fields and past houses which were lightless and dead or bright and private, Mr Biswas no longer thought of the afternoon’s mission, but of the night ahead.",
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        "Lacking light; unilluminated; dark."
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "lacking light",
          "word": "valoton"
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          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "aphengḗs",
          "sense": "lacking light",
          "word": "ἀφεγγής"
        },
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          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "lacking light",
          "word": "ljóslaus"
        },
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          "sense": "lacking light",
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      "ipa": "/laɪtlɛs/"
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      "enpr": "lītʹlĕs"
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        "Lacking light; unilluminated; dark."
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "lacking light",
      "word": "valoton"
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