sunless

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. Dreary, cheerless. figuratively
    — 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.

词形变化

more sunless comparative most sunless superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
sunlessly sunlessness

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥der.
Proto-Germanic *sunnô
Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ
Proto-West Germanic *sunnā
Old English sunne
Middle English sonne
English sun
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English sunless
From sun + -less.
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