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# sunless

adjective (sunless)

«sunless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Without sunlight; dark or dull: a sunless day; the sunless depths of the sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#m1)
2. Where the sun never reaches: a sunless cave. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#m2)

### In the lessons

Science: the deep ocean is sunless, so no plants grow there; animals there make their own light. Poetry: Coleridge's «Kubla Khan» speaks of «caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea». Stories: a sunless forest feels gloomy, like the Wild Wood in winter.

### Examples

- It was a cold, sunless day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#x1)
- Strange fish live in the sunless deep sea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#x2)
- The cave was damp and sunless. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#x3)
- Plants cannot grow in a sunless cellar. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#x4)
- The Wild Wood felt sunless and gloomy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#x5)
- After a week of sunless weather, we longed for summer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#x6)

### Note

Suffix -less = without. Opposite: sunny, sunlit.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sunless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sunless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sunless.html) on Mova free.