sunless

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sunless

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adjective more sunless · 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.
figuratively 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.
Similar: bleak, gloomy, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful

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adj without the sun or sunshine

Português	sombrio
Ελληνικά	ανήλιαγος aníliagos

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@misc{sunless_2026,
  title = {sunless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sunless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}