nighted

English

Etymology 1

night (“noun sense”) +‎ -ed

Adjective

nighted (comparative more nighted, superlative most nighted)

1. Dark; clouded
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Queen Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off.

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness:

     To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law—to be linked with the vast outside—to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate—surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!

2. Overtaken by night; belated

Etymology 2

night (“verb sense”) +‎ -ed

Verb

nighted

1. simple past and past participle of night

Anagrams

• thinged