Sunless
['sʌnləs]
Definition
(a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.
Typed by Lena
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Rayless, beamless, dark, darksome, black, dismal, pitchy, Cimmerian.
Editor: Nell
Examples
- Why, I should not be ill--be dying--if he had not taken me away from Helstone, to this unhealthy, smoky, sunless place. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- O child, you have only lived the pleasant morning time of life; the hot, weary noon, the sad evening, the sunless night, are yet to come for you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- You are in one of your sunless, inclement moods, when one feels a fellow-creature's presence is not welcome to you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She remembered particularly a district traversed one long afternoon, on a sultry but sunless day in summer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Nell