starless
Dark night sky
Starless describes a sky or night without visible stars, usually because of clouds, fog, or light pollution: a starless, moonless night.
The word often sets a mood of darkness or isolation in literary contexts: They wandered beneath a starless sky.
Lacking lunar presence
- pitch-blackCompletely without light
- lightlessHaving no brightness
- unlitNot burning or glowing
- blackDarkest possible hue
inky · void · abyss · shadow · gloom · murk · obscurity · tenebrous
Twelve o'clock at night
- nocturnalActive during darkness
- nightfallOnset of darkness
- nighttimeDark hours between dusk and dawn
- eventideArchaic term for dusk
dusk · twilight · gloaming · owl-light · bedtime · sundown · predawn · dreamless
Without legal effect
- emptyHolding nothing inside
- barrenUnable to produce
- bleakDreary and without cheer
- desolateBleak and abandoned
forsaken · lonely · isolated · silent · vast · infinite · cold · remote
Complete system or domain
- galaxyGravitationally bound stellar mass
- nebulaInterstellar gas formation
- spaceUnoccupied area or interval
- celestialOf the sky above
astronomical · interstellar · deep-space · light-years · cosmos · expanse · firmament · heavens
moonless
Lacking lunar presence
- pitch-blackCompletely without light
- lightlessHaving no brightness
- unlitNot burning or glowing
black · inky · void · abyss · shadow · gloom · murk · obscurity · tenebrous · crepuscular
midnight
Twelve o'clock at night
eventide · dusk · twilight · gloaming · owl-light · bedtime · sundown · predawn · dreamless · sleepless
void
Without legal effect
desolate · forsaken · lonely · isolated · silent · vast · infinite · cold · remote · uninhabited
universe
Complete system or domain
- galaxyGravitationally bound stellar mass
- nebulaInterstellar gas formation
- spaceUnoccupied area or interval
celestial · astronomical · interstellar · deep-space · light-years · cosmos · expanse · firmament · heavens · black-hole
- Darknessblackness, pitch black, pitch-black, inkiness, murk
- atmospheresmisty, hazy, foggy, smoky, humid
- blackestdarkest, pitch-black, jet-black, coal-black, ebony
- emptinessemptiness, void, vacuum, nothingness, blank
starlessstarry
Filled with luminous points
starlit · star-studded · stellar · astral · constellated