joyless
adjective
without joy or gladness; unhappy.
joylessness
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a word derived from
joyless.
Example Sentences
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Her house is pristine and lifeless, reflecting Pansy’s own sense of joylessness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
He observes “the aura of joylessness which surrounds so many rich, powerful, and clever people” and an actress with a voice “perfectly pitched for lying.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
But the joylessness of Diamond’s personality, as detailed by the musical’s book writer, Anthony McCracken, exists in a discomfiting, static counterpoint to the dynamism of his music.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2022
Making her second album during the pandemic also helped her combat the feelings of "joylessness" she'd experienced in her teens.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2022
Is that joy and that glory but a comparative glory and a comparative joy? not such in itself, but such in comparison of the joylessness and the ingloriousness of this world?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
