Dictionary Definition
cheerless adj : lacking cheer; depressing;
"something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful
person"; "an uncheerful place" [syn: uncheerful] [ant: cheerful]
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪə(r)ləs
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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