"sunless" meaning in All languages combined

See sunless on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more sunless [comparative], most sunless [superlative]
Etymology: sun + -less Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|sun|less}} sun + -less Head templates: {{en-adj}} sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)
  1. Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed. Translations (without the sun or sunshine): ἀνήλιος (anḗlios) (Ancient Greek), мрачен (mračen) (Bulgarian), усоен (usoen) (Bulgarian), ανήλιαγος (aníliagos) (Greek), bezsłoneczny (Polish), sombrio (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-sunless-en-adj-dZa0NXVK Disambiguation of 'without the sun or sunshine': 98 2
  2. (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-sunless-en-adj-rJ0wqQX- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -less Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -less: 32 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sunlessly, sunlessness

Download JSON data for sunless meaning in All languages combined (2.4kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sunlessly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sunlessness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sun",
        "3": "less"
      },
      "expansion": "sun + -less",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "sun + -less",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sunless",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sunless",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed."
      ],
      "id": "en-sunless-en-adj-dZa0NXVK",
      "links": [
        [
          "sun",
          "sun#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sunshine",
          "sunshine"
        ],
        [
          "shaded",
          "shaded#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "shadowed",
          "shadowed#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "mračen",
          "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
          "word": "мрачен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "usoen",
          "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
          "word": "усоен"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "aníliagos",
          "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
          "word": "ανήλιαγος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "anḗlios",
          "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
          "word": "ἀνήλιος"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
          "word": "bezsłoneczny"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
          "word": "sombrio"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "15 85",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -less",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dreary, cheerless."
      ],
      "id": "en-sunless-en-adj-rJ0wqQX-",
      "links": [
        [
          "Dreary",
          "dreary"
        ],
        [
          "cheerless",
          "cheerless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Dreary, cheerless."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sunless"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -less"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "sunlessly"
    },
    {
      "word": "sunlessness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sun",
        "3": "less"
      },
      "expansion": "sun + -less",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "sun + -less",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sunless",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sunless",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sun",
          "sun#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "sunshine",
          "sunshine"
        ],
        [
          "shaded",
          "shaded#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "shadowed",
          "shadowed#Adjective"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dreary, cheerless."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Dreary",
          "dreary"
        ],
        [
          "cheerless",
          "cheerless"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) Dreary, cheerless."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mračen",
      "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
      "word": "мрачен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "usoen",
      "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
      "word": "усоен"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "aníliagos",
      "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
      "word": "ανήλιαγος"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "anḗlios",
      "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
      "word": "ἀνήλιος"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
      "word": "bezsłoneczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "without the sun or sunshine",
      "word": "sombrio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sunless"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.