cheerless

cheer·less (chîr

adj.

Lacking cheer; depressing.

cheerless·ly adv.

cheerless·ness n.

cheerless [ˈtʃɪəlɪs]

adj

dreary, gloomy, or pessimistic

cheerlessly adv

cheerlessness n

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Adj.

cheerless - 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"

cheerless

adjective

1. gloomy, dark, depressing, dull, grim, bleak, dismal, dreary, sombre, austere, drab, desolate, forlorn, joyless, funereal, comfortless The kitchen was a dank and cheerless room.
gloomy gay, bright, pleasant, sunny, cheerful, enlivening

2. miserable, sad, depressed, unhappy, gloomy, dismal, melancholy, forlorn, sullen, woeful, mournful, dejected, despondent, sorrowful, disconsolate, joyless, woebegone, dolorous They were like a restless, cheerless throng of lost souls.
miserable happy, cheerful, jolly, merry, cheery, joyful, elated, light-hearted

Translations

cheerless [ˈtʃɪəlɪs] ADJ → triste, sombrío

cheerless [ˈtʃɪə^rləs] adj → sombre, triste

cheerless

adj → freudlos, trüb; person → trübselig, trübsinnig; prospect → trübe, düster, traurig; scenery → grau

cheerless [ˈtʃɪəlɪs] adj (atmosphere) → triste; (room, place) → desolato/a

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carefree cheerful dark depressing dingy disconsolate dismal downcast drab drear dreary forlorn gloomy grim happy-go-lucky Infestive joyless light-hearted melancholy	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	cheekless cheekpiece Cheeks Cheeks of a block Cheeks of a mast Cheektowaga cheeky cheep cheer cheer on cheer up Cheerer cheerful cheerfully cheerfulness cheerily cheeriness cheering Cheeringly cheerio cheerio! Cheerishness cheerlead cheerleader cheerled cheerless cheerlessly cheerlessness cheerly cheers cheers! cheery cheese Cheese cake cheese cutter cheese dip Cheese fly cheese fondue cheese knife cheese mite cheese pizza cheese press Cheese rennet cheese rind cheese sauce cheese skipper cheese souffle cheese spread cheese straw cheese tray Cheese vat	cheeriest cheerily cheeriness cheering cheering cheering cheering to the echo cheering to the echo cheering to the echo cheering to the echo cheering up cheering up cheeringly cheeringly cheeringly cheerio cheerio! Cheerios Cheerishness cheerlead Cheerlead/Cheerleading/Cheerleader cheerleader Cheerleader of the Week Cheerleaders Cheerleaders of America cheerleading Cheerleading Asia International Open Cheerleading Federation of Ireland cheerleads cheerled cheerless cheerlessly cheerlessly cheerlessness cheerlessness Cheerly cheers cheers cheers cheers Cheers (TV series) Cheers in Advance cheers to the echo cheers to the echo cheers to the echo cheers to the echo cheers up cheers up cheers! cheery Cheeryble Brothers Chees Chees Chees Chees cheese cheese cheese cheese cheese Cheese & onion

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carefree
cheerful
dark
depressing
dingy
disconsolate
dismal
downcast
drab
drear
dreary
forlorn
gloomy
grim
happy-go-lucky
Infestive
joyless
light-hearted
melancholy

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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