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sunless
adjective sun·less \-ləs\
: having little light from the sun : not sunny
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First Known Use of SUNLESS
1589
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- black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, gloomy, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
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sunless
adjective sun·less \ˈsən-ləs\
Definition of SUNLESS for Kids
: being without sunlight : dark <a sunless day> <a sunless cave>
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