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# sunless

«sunless» in Mova's school dictionary: **Without sunlight; dark or dull: a sunless day; the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (sunless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Without sunlight; dark or dull: a sunless day; the sunless depths of the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#m1)

2) Where the sun never reaches: a sunless cave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/#m2)

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

### note

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

### In the corpora

- [The shivering, sunless days!](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/57-willows-ch9-part2-the-swallows/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sunless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sunless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.