sunless
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3.6
- adjective
- /ˈsʌnləs/
:
sin sol
- The sunless air was strangely still; the flags drooping on their tall poles.
- sunless sky
- sunless tanning
- sunless day
He saw at once a famous landscape, the old brown, barren ascent with Tufts of dried out bone, like weeds poking slantedly into a dim and sunless sky.
- He saw at once a famous landscape, the old brown, barren ascent with Tufts of dried out bone, like weeds poking slantedly into a dim and sunless sky.
Examples
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After days of rain, the garden remained in a sunless state, leaving the flowers drooping and forlorn.
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Burroughs described the native quarter of Tangier as a maze of sunless twisting streets filled with blind alleys.
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The sunless sky was another sea above, as cold and merciless as the one below.
Fiction book (1992) -
They lived their whole lives in a cruel and sunless world.
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Far away they could see the river turn bleak into the sunless sky, and the trees distant and dark.
Fiction book (1993) -
And when a moment ago he had been delighted to look out the window, now the atmosphere had changed to a drab and sunless afternoon.
Fiction book (1993) -
At a commanding gesture from the necromancer, the misty forms drew back, yet each kept near its corpse, like shadows in a sunless world.
Fiction book (1991) -
In Whitehorse, during the sunless winter, he learned Braille, mail-ordered shell books, and turned up logs after thaws to root for wood snails.
Fiction book (2001) -
The hikers trudged through the dark, sunless forest, feeling the chill of the damp air.
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On the sunless winter afternoons, the children played in the park, their laughter echoing in the gloomy light.
Synonyms
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1.4
Covered with clouds that make the sky look dull and gray
1
3.9
A sky or mountaintop full of clouds that hides the view
A sky full of clouds that hides the sun
Does not get direct sunlight and stays in shade
Antonyms
Compounds
How Sunny
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sunless is simply sun + -less, and -less means 'without', so it literally means 'without sun', just like homeless means 'without a home'. That's why sunless describes a cloudy, dark place with little or no sunlight.