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windowless

American  
[win-doh-lis] / ˈwɪn doʊ lɪs /

adjective

  1. not furnished with any windows; lacking any view of or ventilation from the outside.


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The location of these large, windowless buildings filled with beeping servers and cables also became important to latency – the time it takes for data to travel from its source to its destination.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The narrator is paranoid, weepy and violent, overwhelmed by visions of his own death, and the bass sounds as if it’s descending to a windowless dungeon.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The Backrooms began with a single unsettling image posted anonymously online: a claustrophobic warren of tawdrily yellow, windowless rooms with aged carpets and harsh overhead fluorescent lights.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

The apartment is on the second floor of a fourplex, up a windowless staircase.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

She went into the tiny, windowless bedroom that she shared with Neeley and sat on her own cot in the dark waiting for the waves of panic to stop passing over her.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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