sunless

[ suhn-lis ]

/ ˈsʌn lɪs /

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adjective

lacking sun or sunlight; dark: a sunless room.

dismal; gloomy; cheerless: a sunless smile.

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Origin of sunless

First recorded in 1580–90; sun + -less

OTHER WORDS FROM sunless

sun·less·ly, adverbsun·less·ness, noun

Words nearby sunless

sunk fence, Sun King, sun-kissed, sunk relief, sunlamp, sunless, sun letter, sunlight, Sunlight Peak, sunlit, sun lounge

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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 Kardashians Launch a Tanning Line; PPR Changes Its Name|The Fashion Beast Team|March 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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
A flash went through him, like lightning in a sunless sky, conjuring up in him strange phantasms.
Contemporary Russian Novelists|Serge Persky

British Dictionary definitions for sunless

sunless

/ (ˈsʌnlɪs) /

adjective

without sun or sunshine

gloomy; depressing

Derived forms of sunless

sunlessly, adverbsunlessness, noun

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Origin of sunless

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