cheerless
without cheer; joyless; gloomy: drab, cheerless surroundings.
Origin of cheerless
1Other words from cheerless
- cheer·less·ly, adverb
- cheer·less·ness, noun
Words Nearby cheerless
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How to use cheerless in a sentence
Players adapted to a new world of isolation and cheerless games.
The current period, from the 1990s through today, is surprisingly cheerless.
It was a cheerless morning when they got into the street, blowing and raining hard, and the clouds looking dull and stormy.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles DickensPools of water stood in the miry streets, and every aspect of nature was cheerless and desolate.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThe night wind sweeps across the cheerless park, chilling us to the bone.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander Berkman
It is not, however, quite so barren and cheerless as in the immediate precincts of Dover.
It was a cheerless morning, the sky being heavy and of slaty hue, whilst a brisk north-easter blew cold off the water.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.
British Dictionary definitions for cheerless
/ (ˈtʃɪəlɪs) /
dreary, gloomy, or pessimistic
Derived forms of cheerless
- cheerlessly, adverb
- cheerlessness, noun
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