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cheer·less
 cheerless
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- pronunciation:
- chir
lihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
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 |
adverb + (adj.)cheerless
pretty, somehow, utterly
(adj.)cheerless
+ noun
brick, christmas, cold, environment, hall, memory, newspaper, place, prospect, room, servant, voice
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| derivations: |
cheerlessly (adv.), cheerlessness (n.) |
The word cheerless
contains the following part:
-less
Middle English
adjective-forming suffix
that means without
  More about this word part:
The suffix -less
attaches primarily to monosyllabic English nouns. However, -less
is a fully productive suffix, meaning it can be added to any noun to form legitimate new words.
Example words:
aimless, airless, baseless, blameless, bloodless, boneless, bodiless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, careless, cheerless, colorless, cordless, countless, dauntless, doubtless, endless, fatherless, fearless, feckless, flawless, formless, graceless, groundless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, jobless, joyless, listless, matchless, merciless, mindless, motionless, nameless, painless, peerless, penniless, pitiless, pointless, powerless, priceless, regardless, relentless, restless, selfless, sightless, soundless1, spotless, stainless, strapless, sunless, tasteless, thoughtless, tireless, useless, wireless, weightless, worthless
- synonyms:
- a-1, an-1
- antonyms:
- -ful1
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