adj
Meaning 1
Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
sunless
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homophone: sonless
adj
Meaning 2
Dreary, cheerless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bleak, gloomy, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
filled or abounding with clouds
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cloud-covered, clouded, overcast
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh2wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun Proto-Indo-European *lewh1- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English sunless From sun + -less.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: мрачен (mračen) — without the sun or sunshine
- Bulgarian: усоен (usoen) — without the sun or sunshine
- Greek: ανήλιαγος (aníliagos) — without the sun or sunshine
- Ancient Greek: ἀνήλιος (anḗlios) — without the sun or sunshine
- Old Church Slavonic: беслъньнъ (beslŭnĭnŭ) — without the sun or sunshine
- Polish: bezsłoneczny — without the sun or sunshine
- Portuguese: sombrio — without the sun or sunshine
- Swedish: sollös — without the sun or sunshine