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cheerless [ˈtʃɪəlɪs] adj
dreary, gloomy, or pessimistic cheerlessly adv cheerlessness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. 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'. |
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