Synonyms
- black
- bleak
- cheerless
- chill
- Cimmerian
- cloudy
- cold
- comfortless
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- drear
- dreary
- dreich [chiefly Scottish]
- elegiac
- elegiacal
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- godforsaken
- gray
- grey
- lonely
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- miserable
- morbid
- morose
- murky
- plutonian
- saturnine
- sepulchral
- solemn
- somber
- sombre
- sullen
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- wretched
Examples of sunless in a Sentence
mental patients who were once condemned to spend their lives in the sunless confines of a state asylum
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Instead the team spent those sunless early-morning hours verifying its results.
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
As for applying baby oil or a sunless tanner before spending time in the sun, as some TikTokers suggest, Houshman strongly advised against it.
—Kristen Fischer, Health, 15 Aug. 2024
Cosmetic sunless tanners, such as bronzers and sunless tanner lotions, are considered safe when used appropriately.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
This is what the world looks like at the ocean’s sunless depths.
—James Nestor, Outside Online, 18 June 2024
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Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
As for applying baby oil or a sunless tanner before spending time in the sun, as some TikTokers suggest, Houshman strongly advised against it.
—Kristen Fischer, Health, 15 Aug. 2024
Cosmetic sunless tanners, such as bronzers and sunless tanner lotions, are considered safe when used appropriately.
—Heather Jones, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2024
This is what the world looks like at the ocean’s sunless depths.
—James Nestor, Outside Online, 18 June 2024
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“Sunless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunless. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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