sunless
sunless adjective: without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
Adjective
sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)
- Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision in a Dream”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […]...
- Dreary, cheerless.
- When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless, her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor
- Synonyms:
- bleak, gloomy, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate
sunless meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
sunless in Bengali
- সূর্য, সূর্যালোক বিহীন, ছায়াচ্ছন্ন, অন্ধকারাচ্ছন্ন, বিষণ্ণ, আনন্দহীন
sunless in Malayalam
- overcast, dark, cloudy
- സൂര്യപ്രകാശമില്ലാത്ത, അസൂര, അസൂർത്ത, വെയിൽതട്ടാത്ത, സൂര്യപ്രകാശം ലഭിക്കാത്ത, വെയിലില്ലാത്ത
- shadowy, shady, dark
- നിഴലുള്ള, സൂര്യപ്രകാശം ലഭിക്കാത്ത, വെയിലുതട്ടാത്ത, തണലായ, തണലുള്ള, മറവിലുള്ള
Synonyms of sunless
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Forms of sunless
| comparative | more sunless |
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| superlative | most sunless |
Origin of sunless
From sun + -less.
Words formed from sunless
Questions about sunless
- What does sunless mean?
- Sunless means without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
- What is sunless in Bengali?
- Sunless in Bengali is সূর্য, সূর্যালোক বিহীন, ছায়াচ্ছন্ন. See Sunless meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is sunless?
- Sunless is an adjective.
Words near sunless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sunless (page history and authors); sunless (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sunless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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