Meaning of CHEERLESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'cheerlis
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[adj] lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
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CHEERLESS is a 9 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Synonyms: | | blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, somber, sombre, sorry, uncheerful |
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| | Antonyms: | | cheerful | | |
| | See Also: | | joyless, unhappy | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cheer"less\, a.
Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- {Cheer"less*ly}, adv.
-- {Cheer"less*ness}, n.
My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. --Spenser.
Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate;
dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
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| | Related Terms: | | affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, anguished, anxious, apathetic, bitter, bleak, bored, comfortless, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, despairing, desperate, despondent, discomforting, disconsolate, discontented, disgusted, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, forlorn, funereal, grievous, grim, hopeless, humorless, in bad humor, in despair, infestive, joyless, lamentable, mirthless, miserable, mournful, moving, nauseated, nauseous, oppressive, out of humor, out of sorts, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pleasureless, poignant, prey to malaise, regrettable, repelled, revolted, rueful, sad, saddening, sharp, sickened, somber, sore, sorrowful, sorry, sorryish, suffering angst, touching, uncheerful, uncheery, uncomfortable, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unhopeful, unjoyful, unmirthful, unquiet, unsatisfied, unsmiling, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wretched |
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