Cheerless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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; forlorn.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cheerless
       adj : lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the
             room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful
             place" [syn: {uncheerful}] [ant: {cheerful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "cheerless":
     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