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Sunless

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Being without sunlight; dark or overcast: a sunless moor.

adj. Gloomy; cheerless: a sunless life.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.

adj. Dreary, cheerless.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Destitute of the sun or of its direct rays; dark; shadowed.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. filled or abounding with clouds

Word Usage

""This system is a first clear step that has to grow," Van Kooten says, but more research is needed and people need to get used to the idea of sunless, landless agriculture."

Equivalent

cloudy

Form

sunlessness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

shaded shadowed

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

dank rainy cloudy humid cheerless windless darksome fathomless sunlit pathless