different between runless vs sunless

English

Etymology

run +? -less

Adjective

runless (not comparable)

1. (of stockings) Without runs, or not susceptible to runs.
   • 1985, Gail Gross, Honora M. Finkelstein, Beautiful skin (page 162)

     Some of them will be mini-distresses: you get into a traffic jam that causes a minor delay; your garbage disposal breaks down and you have to call a repairman; you discover your daughter has absconded with your last pair of runless hose […]

2. (sports) Without runs scored (in cricket, baseball, etc.).

Anagrams

• luserns, nursles, urnless

English

Etymology

sun +? -less

Adjective

sunless (comparative more sunless, superlative most sunless)

1. Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
2. (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
   • 1857, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in The Professor:

     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

Translations

Anagrams

• unlesss