sunless
lacking sun or sunlight; dark: a sunless room.
dismal; gloomy; cheerless: a sunless smile.
Origin of sunless
1Other 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 Kardashians Launch a Tanning Line; PPR Changes Its Name | The Fashion Beast Team | March 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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 StevensonIt was an incredible thing that such a flower of affection should have bloomed so sweetly in such sunless cells.
Greyfriars Bobby | Eleanor AtkinsonHe knew which side of the tree to tap, too, and avoided the sunless northern exposure.
A Year in the Fields | John BurroughsThis 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
/ (ˈsʌnlɪs) /
without sun or sunshine
gloomy; depressing
Derived forms of sunless
- sunlessly, adverb
- sunlessness, noun
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