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View synonyms for sunless

sunless

[ suhn-lis ]

adjective

  1. lacking sun or sunlight; dark:

    a sunless room.

  2. dismal; gloomy; cheerless:

    a sunless smile.



sunless

/ ˈsʌnlɪs /

adjective

  1. without sun or sunshine
  2. gloomy; depressing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈsunlessly, adverb
  • ˈsunlessness, noun
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Other Words From

  • sunless·ly adverb
  • sunless·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sunless1

First recorded in 1580–90; sun + -less
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Example Sentences

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.

It was an incredible thing that such a flower of affection should have bloomed so sweetly in such sunless cells.

He knew which side of the tree to tap, too, and avoided the sunless northern exposure.

This phase was to the poor lawyer's hapless passion like the late season known as the Indian summer after a sunless year.

A flash went through him, like lightning in a sunless sky, conjuring up in him strange phantasms.

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