rejoiceless

English

Etymology

From rejoice +‎ -less.

Adjective

rejoiceless (comparative more rejoiceless, superlative most rejoiceless)

1. Without rejoicing
   • 2002, Donald Revell, Arcady, page 70:

     Terror guarded the mid-region
     Where everything was Greeks
     And I needed to risk it
     In the dark
     And rejoiceless heart
     Of helplessness

   • 2007, Margaret Diane Stetz, Cheryl Ann Wilson, Michael Field and their world, page 187:

     Feminine doves, also suggesting the form of the Holy Spirit, nest in these "Caves of Passion," which are "voiceless," yet not "rejoiceless."

   • 2015, Father Yours, *John 6:66, Eternity with the TRINITY Vs Eternity with the Beast:

     To laugh off tempts to going overly 'blue' (any rejoiceless spirits), depressed, deflated, etc. “The One whose throne is in heavens sits laughing” (Ps 2:4) refers to God.

Antonyms

• rejoiceful