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单词 joyless
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Definition of joyless in English:

joyless

adjective ˈdʒɔɪləsˈdʒɔɪləs
  • Not giving or feeling any pleasure or satisfaction; grim or dismal.

    she had to face the thought of a joyless future
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Food is supposed to taste good, and health promotion should not be a series of negative messages that convey a joyless future.
    • It's a bit like scratching an unbearable itch: a completely satisfying activity, but joyless at the same time.
    • All the characters lead dismal, joyless lives.
    • There is, of course, a joyless, self-important statement.
    • It may have been a joyless campaign but the national debate has been intense.
    • Stanley has one of the most joyless birthday parties imaginable thrown in his honour, with an undercurrent of menace never far from the surface.
    • The problem is, at times it's too grim: this is an almost totally joyless book.
    • The middle trilogy is watchable enough rot, but the recent films are joyless, plotless screeds on macroeconomics and industrial relations.
    • And finally, to top my day off, I found out that the joyless, universally disliked boss who's been off on maternity leave will be part time when she comes back at the end of April.
    • He was 55 years old (18 years older than Cloetta) with a bad marriage and a long string of joyless affairs behind him.
    • York endured a joyless visit to Pontefract as they were convincingly beaten 24-0 in a Powergen Yorkshire One result.
    • I didn't vote for this spineless, gormless, joyless, clueless Government.
    • It doesn't make for a moving spectacle - it is too cruel and joyless - but there is no denying the sense of awe which accompanies this rare parade of its talents.
    • It's a pity you're distracted all the time by the plotless, joyless machinations of everyone else involved.
    • Actually, I found nearly all the music totally joyless.
    • For a song about dancing in the streets, it's overwhelmingly joyless.
    • This grim, joyless motion picture is anything but fun.
    • Such joyless suppression crushes that most precious thing in life, the flowering of the individual human spirit.
    • None of it connects with anything beyond this joyless carnival.
    • There is a certain kind of joyless middle-aged woman, either single or unhappily married, who absolutely embodies this theory.
    Synonyms
    gloomy, melancholy, morose, lugubrious, glum, sombre, saturnine, sullen, dour, mirthless, humourless
    unhappy, sad, miserable, depressed, despondent, sunk in gloom, heavy-hearted, doleful, downcast, dejected, dispirited
    depressing, cheerless, gloomy, dreary, bleak, dispiriting, drab, dismal, desolate, wretched, comfortless, austere, stark, sombre, grim
    unwelcoming, uninviting, inhospitable
    literary drear

Derivatives

  • joylessly

  • adverb
    • Ady's poems became required reading joylessly recited by generations of Hungarian schoolchildren in bombastic voices of patriotism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The image of Atta joylessly spooning cold mashed potato into his mouth, taken with everything else we know, strongly suggested a man for whom this world mattered little.
      • Given these constraints, as oppressive as the white tie and collar studs the men joylessly wear, the actors give focused, intelligent performances.
      • I write this dutifully and joylessly in the manner of someone taking out the garbage or performing some other unpleasant task that's been done before but which must be done once more.
      • Throughout the entire show no attention or respect was paid to the viewers; the team were far too busy talking to each other, joylessly.
 
 

Definition of joyless in US English:

joyless

adjectiveˈdʒɔɪləsˈjoiləs
  • Not giving or feeling any pleasure or satisfaction; grim or dismal.

    she had to face the thought of a joyless future
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The middle trilogy is watchable enough rot, but the recent films are joyless, plotless screeds on macroeconomics and industrial relations.
    • Stanley has one of the most joyless birthday parties imaginable thrown in his honour, with an undercurrent of menace never far from the surface.
    • York endured a joyless visit to Pontefract as they were convincingly beaten 24-0 in a Powergen Yorkshire One result.
    • It's a pity you're distracted all the time by the plotless, joyless machinations of everyone else involved.
    • Such joyless suppression crushes that most precious thing in life, the flowering of the individual human spirit.
    • This grim, joyless motion picture is anything but fun.
    • It's a bit like scratching an unbearable itch: a completely satisfying activity, but joyless at the same time.
    • It doesn't make for a moving spectacle - it is too cruel and joyless - but there is no denying the sense of awe which accompanies this rare parade of its talents.
    • There is a certain kind of joyless middle-aged woman, either single or unhappily married, who absolutely embodies this theory.
    • I didn't vote for this spineless, gormless, joyless, clueless Government.
    • And finally, to top my day off, I found out that the joyless, universally disliked boss who's been off on maternity leave will be part time when she comes back at the end of April.
    • The problem is, at times it's too grim: this is an almost totally joyless book.
    • For a song about dancing in the streets, it's overwhelmingly joyless.
    • Food is supposed to taste good, and health promotion should not be a series of negative messages that convey a joyless future.
    • He was 55 years old (18 years older than Cloetta) with a bad marriage and a long string of joyless affairs behind him.
    • There is, of course, a joyless, self-important statement.
    • It may have been a joyless campaign but the national debate has been intense.
    • None of it connects with anything beyond this joyless carnival.
    • Actually, I found nearly all the music totally joyless.
    • All the characters lead dismal, joyless lives.
    Synonyms
    gloomy, melancholy, morose, lugubrious, glum, sombre, saturnine, sullen, dour, mirthless, humourless
    depressing, cheerless, gloomy, dreary, bleak, dispiriting, drab, dismal, desolate, wretched, comfortless, austere, stark, sombre, grim
 
 
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