sunless

Adjective

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. - 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Kubla Khan: Or A Vision...
2. 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, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The...

   Synonyms: bleak gloomy cheerless comfortless dark morose depressing desolate dire disconsolate dismal doleful dolesome drear drearisome dreary dreich forlorn gayless gray gloomsome grim joyless lack-laughter