sunless adjective2 •Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.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. — 1797 •(figurative) Dreary, cheerless.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. — 1857 formsmore sunless · most sunless