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sunless

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sunless

Without the sun#Noun|sun or sunshine; shaded#Adjective|shaded; shadowed#Adjective|shadowed.
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  , S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “

”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: Printed for John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published

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(figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.

1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor:
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.

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