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joyless, a.|ˈdʒɔɪlɪs|
[f. joy n. + -less.]
1. Destitute of joy; having, feeling, or manifesting no joy; sad, cheerless. † Sometimes const. of.
13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 252, I haf ben a Ioylez Iuelere. a1400–50Alexander 1284 Full ioyles he rydes. Ay he gretis as he gase. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1711 While with a joyless smile she turns away The face. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 766 Not in the bought smile Of Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 336 The youthful Bull..Forsakes his Food, and pining for the Lass, Is joyless of the Grove. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §13 It will barely subsist, in a dull joyless insipid state. 188319th Cent. Nov. 811 The lives of the people are joyless.
2. Causing or affording no joy; cheerless, dismal, dreary.
13..E.E. Allit. P. C. 146 Hit watz a ioyles gyn þat Ionas watz inne. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. iv. ii. 67 A ioylesse, dismall, blacke & sorrowfull issue, Heere is the babe as loathsome as a toad. 1740Wesley Hymn, ‘Christ whose glory’ ii, Joyless is the day's return Till Thy mercy's beams I see. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath, On other days the man of toil is doomed To eat his joyless bread, lonely. a1847Eliza Cook There would I be v, The crowd and the city are joyless to me.
Hence ˈjoylessly adv.; ˈjoylessness.
1625Donne Serm. Ps. lxiii. 7 A faintnesse of heart, a chearlesnesse, a joylesnesse of spirit. 1766G. Canning Anti-Lucretius v. 402 The lazy blood moves joylessly. 1881M. C. Hay Missing III. 240 Gravely and joylessly looking up into Alfred's face. 1884Spectator 4 Oct. 1307/2 The general joylessness of the lives of the poor. |