sunless
English
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sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)
- Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
- 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment):
- 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.
- 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment):
- (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
- 1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, ch. 18:
- 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.
- 1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, ch. 18:
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