English Explanatory Dictionary

sunless

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
  2. Dreary, cheerless.

Word forms

sunless more sunless most sunless

Etymology

From sun + -less.

Synonyms

bleak gloomy cheerless comfortless dark morose depressing desolate dire disconsolate dismal doleful dolesome drear drearisome dreary dreich forlorn gayless gray gloomsome grim joyless lack-laughter lugubrious melancholy mirthless miserable no joke saturnine solemn somber sombre spiritless sullen sunless uncheerful uncheery unhappy unmerry wintry woeful

Derived words

sunlessly sunlessness
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