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  2. the quality of showing or involving no happiness: She shrugged and responded with a degree of joylessness. There's a joylessness to these songs. See. joyless. Fewer examples. He exuded a certain joylessness. What is most striking is the joylessness of this book. You can hardly blame Pip for his joylessness.

  3. The meaning of JOY is the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires : delight. How to use joy in a sentence.

  4. adjective. uk / ˈdʒɔɪ.ləs / us / ˈdʒɔɪ.ləs / Add to word list. unhappy: Jane is trapped in a joyless marriage. Synonym. unhappy. Opposites. joyful. joyous literary. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom. be down in the mouth idiom. be in a funk idiom. dismayed.

  5. Define joylessness. joylessness synonyms, joylessness pronunciation, joylessness translation, English dictionary definition of joylessness. adj. Cheerless; dismal. joy′less·ly adv. joy′less·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

  6. joylessness in British English. noun. the state or quality of being devoid of joy or pleasure. The word joylessness is derived from joyless, shown below. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.

  7. joyless in British English. (ˈdʒɔɪlɪs ) adjective. having or producing no joy or pleasure. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Derived forms. joylessly (ˈjoylessly) adverb.

  8. the "joy" family. a feeling of dismal cheerlessness.