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Synonyms of sunless

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Another word for sunless is bleak. Other synonyms of sunless are gloomy, cheerless, comfortless, dark and morose.

Synonyms and similar words for sunless

adjectiveDreary, cheerless.

  • bleakUnhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
  • gloomyNot very illuminated; dim because of darkness, especially when appearing depressing or frightening.
  • cheerlessDevoid of cheer; gloomy.
  • comfortlessOf a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.
  • darkConducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
  • moroseSullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
  • depressingCausing depression or sadness.
  • desolateDismal or dreary.
  • direExpressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
  • disconsolateCheerless, dreary.
  • dismalCausing despair; gloomy and bleak.
  • dolefulFilled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
  • dolesomeCharacterised or marked by sorrow and grief; doleful; dismal; gloomy.
  • drearDreary.
  • drearisomeCharacterised or marked by dreariness.
  • drearyDrab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
  • dreich UK, dialectalBleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.
  • forlornPitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
  • gaylessLacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab.
  • grayDreary, gloomy, cloudy.
  • gloomsomeCharacterised or marked by gloom.
  • grimDismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
  • joylessWithout joy; unhappy, sad.
  • lack-laughterCheerless; sombre; serious.
  • lugubriousGloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
  • melancholyAffected with great sadness or depression.
  • mirthlessLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.
  • miserableOf the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
  • no joke
  • saturnineOf a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
  • somber
  • sombreDark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
  • spiritlessLacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
  • sullenGloomy; dismal; foreboding.
  • uncheerfulNot cheerful.
  • uncheeryNot cheery; gloomy, pessimistic.
  • unhappy
  • unmerryNot merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
  • wintryChilling, cheerless.
  • woeful
  • solemn obsoleteCheerless, gloomy, sombre.

Meaning of sunless

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

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Questions about synonyms of sunless

What is another word for sunless?
Sunless has 41 synonyms on Word.ws, such as bleak, gloomy, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing and desolate.
What does sunless mean?
Sunless means without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.

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