Thesaurus:cheerless
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: devoid of cheer; gloomy (of a situation or disposition, more than of an emotion)
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- cheerless
- comfortless
- bleak
- dark [⇒ thesaurus]
- depressing
- desolate
- disconsolate
- dismal
- doleful
- dolesome
- drear
- dreary
- forlorn
- gayless
- gray
- gloomsome
- gloomy
- humorless
- jokeless
- joyless
- lack-laughter
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- no joke
- saturnine
- solemn (obsolete)
- somber
- sombre
- spiritless
- sunless
- uncheerful
- unfunny
- unhappy [⇒ thesaurus]
- wintry
- woeful
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Various
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “837. dejection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “cheerless” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.