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Sunless vs Moonless - What's the difference?

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Sunless is a related term of moonless.


As adjectives the difference between sunless and moonless

is that sunless is without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed while moonless is (of a night) during which no phase of the moon is visible to provide light.

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

    Anagrams

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    moonless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of a night) During which no phase of the Moon is visible to provide light.
  • (of a planet) Having no orbiting moon.