Word Meanings - SUNLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed. The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep. Byron.

Related words: (words related to SUNLESS)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• SHADING
  1. Act or process of making a shade. 2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.
• SHADD
  Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. Raymond.
• SHADOOF
  A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• SHADY
  1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden. 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Cast it also that
• SHADILY
  In a shady manner.
• SHADOWISH
  Shadowy; vague. Hooker.
• SHAD-WAITER
  A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.
• DESTITUTENESS
  Destitution. Ash.
• BYRONIC
  Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
• SHADDE
  obs. imp. of Shed. Chaucer.
• DESTITUTE
  1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
• SHADDOCK
  A tree and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.
• OVERSHADOW
  1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.
• NIGHTSHADE
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
• OVERSHADOWER
  One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.