单词	cheerlessness
释义	cheerless adjective cheer·​less ˈchir-ləs  : lacking qualities that cheer : bleak, joyless a cheerless room cheerlessly adverb cheerlessness noun Synonyms black bleak chill Cimmerian cloudy cold comfortless dark darkening depressing depressive desolate dire disconsolate dismal drear dreary dreich [chiefly Scottish] elegiac elegiacal forlorn funereal gloomy glum godforsaken gray grey lonely lonesome lugubrious miserable morbid morose murky plutonian saturnine sepulchral solemn somber sombre sullen sunless tenebrific tenebrous wretched See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences The room was surprisingly bare and cheerless. a dank and cheerless castle that was once the site of unspeakable horrors Recent Examples on the Web That turned an entertaining exhibition into an awkward and cheerless faux-competitive affair. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022 For all his gloom, Mann was not entirely cheerless. Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021 Lawrence’s was among the last, with a green campus full of trees, but a gray, cheerless interior and food that, in his words, looked regurgitated. Sarah Enelow-snyder, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020 Bishop spent a cold childhood raised by cheerless Calvinist grandparents (her official guardian, Uncle Jack, was reputedly something of a bully), and quickly learned that intense emotional attachments led to distress. Scott Bradfield, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2019 Nothing like signifyin’ in the Henry Louis Gates Jr. sense, with its necessarily intelligent playfulness, but something essentially post-literate and cheerless. Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 11 July 2019 But a future predicated on product development alone, with little to offer the human heart, is a cheerless future indeed. Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 10 Jan. 2019 Just ahead awaits a peculiar Southern California landscape of palm trees and barbed wire, and then a cheerless, pitiless site: Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution. James Andrew Miller, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2018 The visit draws a strangely dutiful, cheerless local crowd. Holland Cotter, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017 See More Word History First Known Use 1575, in the meaning defined above Kids Definition cheerless adjective cheer·​less ˈchir-ləs  : offering no happiness or cheer : gloomy a cheerless room cheerlessness noun as in melancholy Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance melancholy joylessness ennui boredom lethargy restlessness torpidity lifelessness weariness tedium dullness languidness listlessness languor indifference dispiritedness dulness monotony lassitude unconcern blah torpor doldrums blah-blah apathy monotonousness sameness Antonyms & Near Antonyms fascination absorption enchantment engrossment involvement excitement beguilement stimulation engagement bewitchment immersion amusement captivation relief enlivenment animation invigoration entertainment diversion See More
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