sunless

sunless

English Adj
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Definition

Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.

Etymology

From sun + -less.

Example Sentences

  • "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."
  • "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."
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