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cheerless

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cheer·less  (chîrls)
adj.
Lacking cheer; depressing.
cheerless·ly adv.
cheerless·ness n.
cheerless
Adjective
dreary or gloomy
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.cheerlesscheerless - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"
depressing, uncheerful
unhappy - experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"
joyless - not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings"
Translations
cheerless [ˈtʃɪəlɪs] adj → triste, sombrío
cheerless [ˈtʃɪəlɪs] adj → sombre, triste
cheerless [ˈtʃɪəlɪs] cheer adj → freudlos, trüb;
(room) → trostlos
cheerless [ˈtʃɪəlɪs] adj → triste


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THE Dog, as created, had a rigid tail, but after some centuries of a cheerless existence, unappreciated by Man, who made him work for his living, he implored the Creator to endow him with a wag.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Doubtless it is fancy, but it seems to me now that the remaining distance was made in a chill fog; that I was uncomfortably cold; that the way was longer than ever before, and the town, when we reached it, cheerless, forbidding, and desolate.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Hesiod's diction is in the main Homeric, but one of his charms is the use of quaint allusive phrases derived, perhaps, from a pre- Hesiodic peasant poetry: thus the season when Boreas blows is the time when `the Boneless One gnaws his foot by his fireless hearth in his cheerless house'; to cut one's nails is `to sever the withered from the quick upon that which has five branches'; similarly the burglar is the `day-sleeper', and the serpent is the `hairless one'.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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