1
: lacking sunshine : dark
In the bay's sunless middle depths, other-worldly creatures drift through the darkness …—
Tom Waters
2
: cheerless
But now and then he gave us a sermon … some would call a very good one; but sunless and severe.—
Anne Brontë
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