'Cheerless' definitions:
Definition of 'cheerless'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: depressing, cheerless, uncheerful] [ant: cheerful]
Definition of 'Cheerless'
From: GCIDE
- Cheerless \Cheer"less\, a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- {Cheer"less*ly}, adv. -- {Cheer"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
- My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. --Spenser.
- Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cheerless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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