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unbrightened

adj

Etymology

From un- + brighten + -ed.

  1. inherited from bright — “brightness, brilliance; daylight; light”
  2. derived from *bʰerHǵ-✻ — “to shine, to gleam, whiten”
  3. inherited from *berhtaz✻ — “bright”
  4. inherited from *berht✻
  5. inherited from beorht
  6. inherited from bright
  7. suffixed as brighten — “bright + en”
  8. formed as unbrightened — “un- + brighten + -ed”

Definitions

  1. Not having been brightened.

    • Unloved, and uncaressed, her childhood unbrightened by the sunny mirth of that age, her girlhood a gloomy period of austere seclusion […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA