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单词 cheerless
释义 cheerless, a.|ˈtʃɪəlɪs|
[f. cheer n.1 + -less.]
Devoid of cheer or comfort; dull, gloomy, dreary, joyless, dispiriting.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 182 Whose voyces siluer sound To cheerefull songs can chaunge my cherelesse cryes.1596F.Q. i. iii. 27 My chearefull day is turnd to chearelesse night.1605Shakes. Lear v. iii. 290 All's cheerlesse, darke, and deadly.1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 169 Eden itself, after such a vision, would appear a cheerless desert.1842Pusey Crisis Eng. Ch. 78 It has been thought that our teaching..would be ‘gloomy and cheerless’.
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