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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No one is winking or making fun, despite the fact that this father and son are extolling the beauty of the morning while inside a sunless bunker six miles underground.
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Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Even on the days of sunless mist, there are living things out there that are ready to brighten your day.
—Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
Today there are more than 200 private submersibles operating around the world and a dozen companies selling tours to the sunless depths.
—James Nestor, Outside Online, 18 June 2024
Instead the team spent those sunless early-morning hours verifying its results.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
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Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
Even on the days of sunless mist, there are living things out there that are ready to brighten your day.
—Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2024
Today there are more than 200 private submersibles operating around the world and a dozen companies selling tours to the sunless depths.
—James Nestor, Outside Online, 18 June 2024
Instead the team spent those sunless early-morning hours verifying its results.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Sunless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunless. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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