cheerless
2
5.5
- adjective
- /ˈtʃɪr.ləs/
- The season's cheerless without the children.
- cheerless room
- cheerless day
- cheerless place
Examples
-
Claudel answered, his face tense, his eyes cheerless in the harsh fluorescent light.
Fiction book (2001) -
In London, churches were cheerless.
Fiction book (1990) -
At first, his face was blank, but then it fell into a broken, cheerless smile.
Fiction book (1996) -
Clearly, when God had said, "Let there be light," He hadn't had this cheerless room in mind, she thought.
Fiction book (1998) -
Outside, her cheerless and windowless little fort.
Fiction book (1997) -
At dawn, the now somewhat cheerless group of adventurers set forth on foot.
Fiction book (1993) -
By mid-afternoon, he faced the cheerless prospect of another night's snow camp.
Fiction book (1997) -
Will tried for a moment to imagine Gordon Glen without her; it was a bleak and cheerless place he saw.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the rainy evening gloom, the cafe looked tawdry and cheerless despite the lights glowing inside.
Fiction book (1998) -
In the rainy evening gloom, the cafe looked tawdry and cheerless despite the lights glowing inside.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling unhappy or upset because of something
445
3.5
Feeling very sad and without hope
430
1.0
Feeling gloomy and sad
196
2.2
Making you feel very sad and that things will not get better
88
4.2
Sad and hopeless, making things seem very bad
80
4.7
Showing little hope or encouragement
58
4.5
Making you feel sad and hopeless
44
3.8
A gloomy, boring time that makes you feel sad or tired
32
5.9
Feeling or showing deep sadness
29
2.5
Feeling sad and without much hope
26
4.7
Being quiet and bad-tempered, showing that a person is upset
22
4.1
Looking or feeling sad and quiet
14
7.9
Being quiet and unhappy and showing little interest in others
8
4.6
Not feeling happy or showing any pleasure
4
7.2
Feeling deep, quiet sadness
2
4.1
Feeling sad and without much hope
1
5.1
Feeling sad and without much energy
1
7.0
Not cheerful or happy
1
5.5
Feeling sad or making a place feel gloomy
1
6.0
Not expecting success or any improvement
Dark and sad in a way that makes you feel unhappy
Antonyms
How Cheerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cheerless is made from cheer, a word that once meant 'face' or 'expression' and later came to mean happiness, plus the ending -less, which means 'without'. So cheerless is like having 'no smile on the face' and means lacking cheer or comfort.