sunless

[ suhn-lis ]
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adjective
  1. lacking sun or sunlight; dark: a sunless room.

  2. dismal; gloomy; cheerless: a sunless smile.

Origin of sunless

1
First recorded in 1580–90; sun + -less

Other words from sunless

  • sun·less·ly, adverb
  • sun·less·ness, noun

Words Nearby sunless

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How to use sunless in a sentence

  • Now, Kim, Khloé, and Kourtney have decided to take their skincare efforts one step further and launch a sunless tanning line.

  • The head of it faces the doors of the prison; its tail descends into the sunless slums of the Low Calton.

    Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis Stevenson
  • It was an incredible thing that such a flower of affection should have bloomed so sweetly in such sunless cells.

    Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor Atkinson
  • He knew which side of the tree to tap, too, and avoided the sunless northern exposure.

    A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs
  • This phase was to the poor lawyer's hapless passion like the late season known as the Indian summer after a sunless year.

    Parisians in the Country | Honore de Balzac

British Dictionary definitions for sunless

sunless

/ (ˈsʌnlɪs) /


adjective
  1. without sun or sunshine

  2. gloomy; depressing

Derived forms of sunless

  • sunlessly, adverb
  • sunlessness, noun

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