cheerlessness

2 definitions found

cheerlessness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

cheerlessness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cheerlessness
      n 1: a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness [syn:
           cheerlessness, uncheerfulness] [ant: blitheness,
           cheerfulness]