Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no shadow; hence, weird; supernatural.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having no shadow.

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  • adjective Lacking a shadow.

Etymologies

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shadow +‎ -less

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Examples

  • This results in flat and nearly shadowless photos like the one seen above.

    Get The Most From Your Point-and-Shoot Camera | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • The outdoor light muted, shadowless, robbing my shots of contrast.

    Famous Todd Strasser 2011

  • On a late winter afternoon in Los Angeles there's a kind of shadowless gray glare that's both heavy in mood and bright on the eyes.

    The Edge of a New Frontier Peter Plagens 2012

  • The photography is timeless -- almost shadowless full natural light coming in through a tall bay window in a classic old Victorian wooden house in Arcata, Northern California.

    Jules Siegel: Sensual Massage Made Simple Video Renews the Healing Spirit of the '70s Jules Siegel 2010

  • The night was a wonder of shadowless trees, a giant thrall — a wheeze from the dome where the sky now was, then nothing at all.

    Poetry, Please « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • The outdoor light muted, shadowless, robbing my shots of contrast.

    Famous Todd Strasser 2011

  • The night was a wonder of shadowless trees, a giant thrall — a wheeze from the dome where the sky now was, then nothing at all.

    2009 May « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

  • - An almost-became-a-vampire guy, shadowless (?) girl, weightless girl, eccentric guy who knows about supernatural stuff, weight crab … What else is next?

    Anime Preview: Summer 2009 First Impressions – Batch 1 « Undercover 2009

  • We are accustomed to seeing television footage—usually filmed from a helicopter—of Martian swaths of waterless land, cracked into giraffe-hide patterns; close-ups of children with bellies boated from hunger staring at the camera as flies land on their skin; panoramic shots of carcasses of wasted animals lying beneath shadowless thorn trees.

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Listening to the silence of the cold, absorbing the shadowless light.

    Red Wolf Liza Marklund 2010

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