sunless

[US]/'sʌnləs/
[UK]/'sʌnləs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj.lacking sunlight; dark

Example Sentences

The sunless sky made the day feel gloomy.

The sunless room was lit only by a single lamp.

She preferred sunless beaches for relaxation.

The sunless forest was quiet and eerie.

He avoided sunless alleyways at night.

The sunless winter days seemed to drag on forever.

The sunless basement was cold and damp.

She longed for a sunless retreat in the mountains.

The sunless morning made it hard to get out of bed.

The sunless cityscape was shrouded in fog.

Real-world Examples

Very few of these seeds will germintate in the cool, sunless shade created by their towering parents.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

The liquid also contains dissolved gases such as methane and hydrogen, which in sunless environments support microbial life.

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American January 2023 Collection

Every one of them was chalky pale, the palest of all the students living in this sunless town.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

There's a reason why we chose the Olympic Peninsula, one of the most sunless places in the world.

Source: Twilight: Eclipse

" What will become of me" ? she murmured, beholding her desert sunless.

Source: Lily of the Valley (Part 1)

For thousands of years every philosopher had stood on the shore of this sunless sea, diving for pearls and never finding them.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 2)

From one point of view, their migration was the fruit of an old prophecy, for indeed they emerged from a sunless world.

Source: Advanced English 1 Third Edition

Not with such fervor prays the torpid recluse, looking forward to the cold, sunless, stagnant calm of a day that is to be like innumerable yesterdays.

Source: Seven-angled Tower (Part 1)

Overhead was a sunless sky, muffled in clouds that were heavy with snow; underfoot, a black frost; blowing over it, a wind that felt as if it would take your skin off.

Source: 06 The Silver Chair

It is no indication, however, of a lack of cheerfulness in the writer's mind: for he was happier while straying through the gloom of these sunless fantasies than at any time since he had quitted the Old Manse.

Source: Red characters

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