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cheer·less
 cheerless
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- pronunciation:
- chir
lihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
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adjective |
| definition: |
without joy or cheer; gloomy, dreary, or dismal.
a cheerless prospect of dull labor- synonyms:
- depressing, dismal, dreary, gloomy, joyless, melancholy, sunless
- antonyms:
- cheerful, jovial, merry
- similar words:
- black, bleak, cold, desolate, doleful, drab, forlorn, funereal, grim, miserable, moody, mournful, sad, saturnine, somber, sorry, unhappy, woeful, wretched
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| related words: |
gloomy, melancholy, morose, sullen |
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| derivations: |
cheerlessly (adv.), cheerlessness (n.) |
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