Definizione monolingua

sunless

sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)

1. Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
   • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment):

     In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

     A stately pleasure dome decree:

     Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

     Through caverns measureless to man

     Down to a sunless sea.

2. (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
   • 1857, Charlotte Brontë, The Professor, ch. 18:

     When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless, her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.

Definizione dizionario sunless

Altri significati:

Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.

(figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.

Without sunshine.