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Synonyms for sunless

  • adjective

Most common

bleak dreary stygian drear beamless

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Dark — dreary, cheerless

dark, black, dreary, gloomy, cheerless, grim, bleak, dismal, joyless, depressing, obscure, somber US, sombre UK, unhappy, pitchy, stygian, darksome formal, drear, tenebrous formal, tenebrose, unilluminated, rayless, desolate

2. Overcast

overcast, clouded, cloudy

Other

beamless

Antonyms

clear, sunny, alight

All antonyms of sunless →

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Dreary, cheerless.

  2. adj. 2

    Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.

Example sentences

  • bleak To some people, Algeria's future is looking bleak.
  • dreary I've got to go to another dreary meeting tomorrow.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
sunlesssteady
bleakrising
drearyrising
stygianrising
drearsteady
beamlessfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
dark1, grim1
5 letters
black1, bleak1, drear
6 letters
cloudy2, gloomy2, dismal2, dreary2, somber2, sombre, pitchy
7 letters
unhappy3, obscure2, clouded2, joyless, stygian3, rayless
8 letters
desolate3, overcast3, darksome, beamless
9 letters
cheerless, tenebrous3, tenebrose
10 letters
depressing3
13 letters
unilluminated

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (cloudy2 = 2 syllables).