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adjective
- 1. gloomy; depressing: "the corridors were ill-lit and cheerless"
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not bright or pleasant and making you feel sad: a cold and cheerless winter afternoon. a bare, cheerless apartment. Synonym. depressing. Opposite. cheerful. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Saddening, shocking and upsetting. affecting. agonizingly. arrogance. baleful. be cold comfort idiom. distressfully. distressingly. dolorous.
The meaning of CHEERLESS is lacking qualities that cheer : bleak, joyless. How to use cheerless in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Cheerless.
adjective. Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing. The kitchen was dank and cheerless. ...a bleak, cheerless day. Synonyms: gloomy, dark, depressing, dull More Synonyms of cheerless. More Synonyms of cheerless. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency.
Definitions of cheerless. adjective. causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. “something cheerless about the room” synonyms: depressing, uncheerful. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry. causing dejection. melancholy, somber, sombre. grave or even gloomy in character. unhappy.
Define cheerless. cheerless synonyms, cheerless pronunciation, cheerless translation, English dictionary definition of cheerless. adj. Lacking cheer; depressing. cheer′less·ly adv. cheer′less·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Definition of cheerless adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
not bright or pleasant and making you feel sad: a cold and cheerless winter afternoon. a bare, cheerless apartment. Synonym. depressing. Opposite. cheerful. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Saddening, shocking and upsetting. affecting. agonizingly. arrogance. baleful. be cold comfort idiom. distressfully. distressingly. dolorous.
Cheerless definition: without cheer; joyless; gloomy. See examples of CHEERLESS used in a sentence.
cheerless. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English cheer‧less /ˈtʃɪələs $ ˈtʃɪr-/ adjective cheerless weather, places, or times make you feel sad, bored, or uncomfortable SYN gloomy This is a cold cheerless place.
cheerless in American English. (ˈtʃɪərlɪs) adjective. without cheer; joyless; gloomy. drab, cheerless surroundings. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.
