cheerless

cheerless
Synonyms and related words:
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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  • Cheerless — Cheer less, a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort. {Cheer less*ly}, adv. {Cheer less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. Spenser. Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate; dejected; melancholy;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • cheerless — index bleak (severely simple), disconsolate, grave (solemn), lugubrious, pessimistic Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • cheerless — *dismal, dreary, dispiriting, bleak, desolate Analogous words: discouraging, disheartening, dejecting (see DIS COURAGE) Antonyms: cheerful …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • cheerless — [adj] depressing, unhappy austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim,… …   New thesaurus

  • cheerless — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ gloomy; depressing. DERIVATIVES cheerlessly adverb cheerlessness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • cheerless — [chir′lis] adj. not cheerful; dismal; joyless; dreary cheerlessly adv. cheerlessness n …   English World dictionary

  • cheerless — cheer|less [ˈtʃıələs US ˈtʃır ] adj cheerless weather, places, or times make you feel sad, bored, or uncomfortable = ↑gloomy ▪ This is a cold, cheerless place. ▪ The day was grey and cheerless. >cheerlessness n [U] …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • cheerless — [[t]tʃɪ͟ə(r)ləs[/t]] ADJ GRADED Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing. The kitchen was dank and cheerless. ...a bleak, cheerless dawn with driving rain clouds. Syn: gloomy …   English dictionary

  • cheerless — adjective cheerless weather, places, or times make you feel sad, bored, or uncomfortable: the dark, cheerless rooms upstairs | a grey and cheerless day cheerlessly adverb cheerlessness noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • cheerless — adjective Date: 1579 lacking qualities that cheer ; bleak, joyless < a cheerless room > Synonyms: see dismal • cheerlessly adverb • cheerlessness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • cheerless — cheerlessly, adv. cheerlessness, n. /chear lis/, adj. without cheer; joyless; gloomy: drab, cheerless surroundings. [1570 80; CHEER + LESS] * * * …   Universalium

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