SUNLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sunless mean? 

• SUNLESS (adjective)
  The adjective SUNLESS has 1 sense:

1. filled or abounding with clouds

  Familiarity information: SUNLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUNLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Filled or abounding with clouds

Synonyms:

cloud-covered; clouded; overcast; sunless

Similar:

cloudy (full of or covered with clouds)

 Context examples 

The pale light of the short sunless day was beginning to fade, when a faint far cry arose on the still air.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I felt how—if I were his wife, this good man, pure as the deep sunless source, could soon kill me, without drawing from my veins a single drop of blood, or receiving on his own crystal conscience the faintest stain of crime.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The earthy smell, the sunless air, the sensation of the world being shut out, the resounding of the organ through the black and white arched galleries and aisles, are wings that take me back, and hold me hovering above those days, in a half-sleeping and half-waking dream.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Here ensued a pause, filled up by the producing and lighting of a cigar; having placed it to his lips and breathed a trail of Havannah incense on the freezing and sunless air, he went on—I liked bonbons too in those days, Miss Eyre, and I was croquant—(overlook the barbarism)—croquant chocolate comfits, and smoking alternately, watching meantime the equipages that rolled along the fashionable streets towards the neighbouring opera-house, when in an elegant close carriage drawn by a beautiful pair of English horses, and distinctly seen in the brilliant city-night, I recognised the 'voiture' I had given Celine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)