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 →

2) Where the sun never reaches: a sunless cave. tree →

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 →
• Strange fish live in the sunless deep sea. tree →
• The cave was damp and sunless. tree →
• Plants cannot grow in a sunless cellar. tree →
• The Wild Wood felt sunless and gloomy. tree →
• After a week of sunless weather, we longed for summer. tree →

note

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

In the corpora

• The shivering, sunless days!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sunless» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.