moonless

[moon-lis]

adjective

1. not lit by the moon; without the moon being visible, usually because it is in a new moon phase or because the sky is too overcast.

2. (of a world or planet, such as Venus or Mercury) not orbited by a moon.

Example Sentences

On a moonless night in the Kenyan lakeside town of Naivasha, Anne sits inside a makeshift, two-room house, exhausted after a gruelling shift picking and sorting roses.

From BBC

Osman Taha, a badly wounded officer in the Sudanese military, as he crossed the Nile on a moonless night last November.

From New York Times

There were a total of eight seats, and she took one in the back row, staring out the window as the plane took off and soared into the moonless night.

From Literature

“We stand beneath a moonless night in the heart of this natural wonderland to feel into the infinite and feel awe that binds us together.”

From Los Angeles Times

When the solar system was young, the infant Earth was moonless, a solitary planet looping around the primordial sun.

From National Geographic