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joyless

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joy·less  (joils)
adj.
Cheerless; dismal.

joyless·ly adv.
joyless·ness n.

joyless [ˈdʒɔɪlɪs]
adj
having or producing no joy or pleasure
joylessly  adv
joylessness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.joyless - not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings"
cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - 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"
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"
sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13
joyous - full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter"

joyless
adjective unhappy, sad, depressing, miserable, gloomy, dismal, dreary, dejected, dispirited, downcast, down in the dumps (informal), cheerless His work load had become so enormous that life seemed joyless.
Translations
joyless [ˈdʒɔɪlɪs] ADJsin alegría, triste
joyless [ˈdʒɔɪləs] adj (= cheerless) → triste
joyless
adjfreudlos; person alsogriesgrämig


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As a sort of atonement she wrote 'Day after Day,' the story of a dismal and joyless orphan, who dies to the sound of angelic music, faint and farheard, filling the whole chamber.
Simpson, and the Simpson family; their poverty, their joyless life, and their abject need of a banquet lamp to brighten their existence.
And now, in joyless age, she felt that some withered partner should request her hand, and all unite, in a dance of death, to the music of the funeral bell.
 
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