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Etymology

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From un- +‎ brighten +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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unbrightened (not comparable)

  1. Not having been brightened.
    • 1849, The Literary Garland, page 244:
      Unloved, and uncaressed, her childhood unbrightened by the sunny mirth of that age, her girlhood a gloomy period of austere seclusion []