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Runless vs Sunless - What's the difference?

runless | sunless |

As adjectives the difference between runless and sunless

is that runless is (of stockings) not susceptible to runs while sunless is without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.

runless

English

Adjective

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  • (of stockings) Not susceptible to runs.
  • (sports) Without runs (in cricket, baseball, etc.).

    • sunless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
  • * 1816 , , Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment) :
    • 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.
  • (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
  • * 1857 , , The Professor , ch. 18:
    • 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.

    Derived terms

    * sunlessly * sunlessness

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