shadowless

English

Etymology tree

English shadow

Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.

Proto-Germanic *leusaną

Proto-Germanic *lausaz

Proto-Germanic *-lausaz

Proto-West Germanic *-laus

Old English -lēas

Middle English -les

English -less

English shadowless

From shadow + -less.

shadowless (comparative more shadowless, superlative most shadowless)

Lacking a shadow.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 313:
  There is something in the shadowless sky and the unbroken moonshine which mocks us with repose. We have no part in it; our own unrest has no sympathy with the blue and spiritual horizon, whose hope is not with this life.
- 1947 September and October, “First Southern Railway Post-War Vessel”, in Railway Magazine, page 294:
  […] fluorescent lighting has been adopted for the upper deck lounges and smokerooms, so giving shadowless lighting.

lacking a shadow