SUNLESS - 8 definitions found
sunless adj 1: filled or abounding with clouds [syn: cloud-covered, clouded, overcast, sunless] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) sunless adjective Date: 1589 lacking sunshine ; dark, cheerless Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary sunless 1. On sunless days, the sun does not shine. The day dawned sunless and with a low cloud base. ≠ sunny ADJ 2. Sunless places are not lit by the sun. Carmen stayed behind in the dark, sunless room. ADJ: ADJ n Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Sunless \Sun"less\, a. Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed. The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep. --Byron. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms sunless a. 1. Shaded, shady, unillumined, unlighted. 2. Rayless, beamless, dark, darksome, black, dismal, pitchy, Cimmerian, Stygian. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) sunless adj. dark, grim, cheerless, unhappy, joyless, funereal, depressing, dreary, drear, sombre, gloomy, grey, Stygian, black, pitchy, inky, shadowy, tenebrous, unlit, unlighted, dusky, subfusc or subfuscous, darkling: It was an overcast sunless day, with rain in the offing. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 50 Moby Thesaurus words for "sunless": Stygian, beamless, black, black as night, caliginous, cheerless, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darksome, depressing, drear, dreary, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, funereal, gloomy, grey, grim, inky, joyless, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, shadowy, starless, subfusc, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, unhappy, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit |
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