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Sunless

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Dreary, cheerless. figuratively

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    filled or abounding with clouds wordnet

Etymology

From sun + -less.

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