Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sunless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English

Syllables: sun-less
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.

adj

Dreary, cheerless.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English sunless From sun + -less.

Inflected Forms

more sunless (comparative) most sunless (superlative)

Derived Forms

sunlessly sunlessness

Synonyms

bleak gloomy cheerless comfortless dark morose depressing desolate dire disconsolate dismal doleful

Homonyms

sonless

Questions

What does sunless mean?: Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
Where does sunless come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der. Proto-Germanic *sunnô Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ Proto-West Germanic *sunnā Old English sunne Middle English sonne English sun Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English sunless From sun + -less.

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