Synonyms of sunless

sunless

adjective

ˈsən-ləs 

as in darkening

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

mental patients who were once condemned to spend their lives in the sunless confines of a state asylum

Synonyms & Similar Words

• darkening
• dark
• bleak
• lonely
• desolate
• depressive
• depressing
• somber
• gray
• grey
• cold
• murky
• lonesome
• solemn
• blue
• morbid
• drear
• black
• dreary
• miserable
• cheerless
• gloomy
• wretched
• chill
• cloudy
• sepulchral
• funereal
• sombre
• sullen
• dismal
• morose
• tenebrous
• oppressive
• comfortless
• saturnine
• depressed
• lugubrious
• forlorn
• elegiac
• dreich
• glum
• disconsolate
• godforsaken
• melancholy
• dire
• sad
• Cimmerian
• plutonian
• dim
• dull
• elegiacal
• desperate
• despondent
• woebegone
• melancholic
• hopeless
• unhappy
• tenebrific
• mirthless
• grim
• dispiriting
• mournful
• hangdog
• distressing
• drab
• dejected
• negative
• menacing
• distressful
• woeful
• droopy
• discouraging
• inconsolable
• down
• low
• colorless
• discomfiting
• disheartening
• sorrowful
• plaintive
• dour
• dismaying
• pessimistic
• upsetting
• louring
• lamentable
• threatening
• lowering
• lowery
• loury

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• bright
• sunshiny
• friendly
• comforting
• cheerful
• gay
• festive
• cordial
• cheery
• merry
• joyous
• joyful
• buoyant
• gay
• jolly
• blithe
• mirthful
• hopeful
• encouraging
• cheering
• optimistic
• jocund
• blithesome
• heartwarming
• lighthearted
• lightsome

Examples of sunless in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Box had a slighty funhouse mirror quality to it, probably because the set was housed at the Fell’s Point Recreation Pier, a sunless relic of better days in Charm City. —Paul McGuire, Variety, 14 Dec. 2023

The sunless winter caused extraordinary disorientation; her imagination conjured phantoms from the dark. —Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023

What governs the sunless vistas is not a peaceable kingdom but a fierce contest for life, occasionally made vivid for us by the fiery, bioluminescent nature of its display. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023

Its hangar can hold three miniature submarines for taking humans into the sunless depths. —William J. Broad, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2020