sunless

English

Etymology

sun +‎ -less

Adjective

sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)

1. Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
   • 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. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 55:

     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.

2. (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
   • 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor:

     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.

Derived terms

• sunlessly
• sunlessness

Translations

without the sun or sunshine

• Greek: ανήλιαγος (el) (aníliagos)

  Ancient: ἀνήλιος (anḗlios)

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