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Definition of cheerless in English: cheerlessadjective ˈtʃɪəlɪsˈtʃɪrləs Gloomy; depressing. the corridors were ill-lit and cheerless Example sentencesExamples - He smiled a cheerless smile, ‘Welcome,’ he whispered, ‘to your destiny.’
- I saw a picture of your cheerless face holding your resignation letter to the camera and I thought I'd better write.
- What he remembers most was the stillness of the dressing-room and, later, the cheerless evening he spent at his hotel in Newport.
- Most often I can see the beauty of the countryside even on a dull and cheerless day such as this.
- Try to see it on a big screen for the full effect of its magnificent, cheerless vistas, which meld ice and sky in a horizonless prospect, highlighting the drama as if on a modernist stage.
- Traders and residents are being warned the city will be drab and cheerless if funds are not found to pay for proper illuminations.
- A cheerless Christmas was suddenly transformed into a very festive one and our bunker started to give off alcohol fumes and cigar smoke, and this, plus our raucous singing, drew the attention of the occupants of nearby bunkers.
- Next to his caravan is what is laughably called his ‘chalet’ - laughable because it is hard to imagine anything less like a jolly holiday camp than this cold, cheerless place.
- I didn't want people to see the cheerless me, I didn't want to seem weak, but most of all I didn't want others to know the pain within my soul.
- It serves only to cast a chill upon intellectual and creative activities and to turn the serious business of law enforcement into a cheerless farce.
- I spent the next few cheerless evenings perspiring over our family computer, launching my new PDA into repeated death spirals.
- Abandoned as a newborn infant in a shoe box and left behind an Italian restaurant in an English city in 1965, Rebecca is adopted by a cheerless couple who have little feel for parenting.
- A grey, wet, cheerless, Paris day bought with it the need for a self-indulgent treat.
- It has been a cheerless four months since the storm tore this section of New Orleans to pieces.
- The walls and floors were of stone, and the room was bland and cheerless.
- The other rooms were just too large and empty, making them both joyless and cheerless for most of the time.
- The four anaemic trees along Bedford Hill only emphasise the cheerless prospect.
- The students of Fine Arts College were only too willing to help out the social workers in their efforts to bring some colour to the cheerless life of the inmates of the mental hospital.
- It looks oddly bleak and cheerless - and if you look carefully you can see that where the water splashes down, it has frozen into a mound of ice.
- Despite meagre attempts to beautify the grounds with flowers and shrubs, there was no denying that this was a grim and cheerless place.
Synonyms gloomy, dreary, dull, dismal, bleak, drab, grim, sombre, dark, dim, dingy, funereal austere, stark, bare, desolate, comfortless miserable, wretched, joyless, unhappy, depressing, disheartening, dispiriting, unwelcoming, uninviting, inhospitable, bland, clinical, institutional, impersonal
Definition of cheerless in US English: cheerlessadjectiveˈtʃɪrləsˈCHirləs Gloomy; depressing. the corridors were ill-lit and cheerless Example sentencesExamples - I didn't want people to see the cheerless me, I didn't want to seem weak, but most of all I didn't want others to know the pain within my soul.
- It has been a cheerless four months since the storm tore this section of New Orleans to pieces.
- A cheerless Christmas was suddenly transformed into a very festive one and our bunker started to give off alcohol fumes and cigar smoke, and this, plus our raucous singing, drew the attention of the occupants of nearby bunkers.
- I saw a picture of your cheerless face holding your resignation letter to the camera and I thought I'd better write.
- He smiled a cheerless smile, ‘Welcome,’ he whispered, ‘to your destiny.’
- It looks oddly bleak and cheerless - and if you look carefully you can see that where the water splashes down, it has frozen into a mound of ice.
- A grey, wet, cheerless, Paris day bought with it the need for a self-indulgent treat.
- I spent the next few cheerless evenings perspiring over our family computer, launching my new PDA into repeated death spirals.
- What he remembers most was the stillness of the dressing-room and, later, the cheerless evening he spent at his hotel in Newport.
- It serves only to cast a chill upon intellectual and creative activities and to turn the serious business of law enforcement into a cheerless farce.
- Traders and residents are being warned the city will be drab and cheerless if funds are not found to pay for proper illuminations.
- Despite meagre attempts to beautify the grounds with flowers and shrubs, there was no denying that this was a grim and cheerless place.
- The four anaemic trees along Bedford Hill only emphasise the cheerless prospect.
- Most often I can see the beauty of the countryside even on a dull and cheerless day such as this.
- Abandoned as a newborn infant in a shoe box and left behind an Italian restaurant in an English city in 1965, Rebecca is adopted by a cheerless couple who have little feel for parenting.
- The other rooms were just too large and empty, making them both joyless and cheerless for most of the time.
- The students of Fine Arts College were only too willing to help out the social workers in their efforts to bring some colour to the cheerless life of the inmates of the mental hospital.
- Next to his caravan is what is laughably called his ‘chalet’ - laughable because it is hard to imagine anything less like a jolly holiday camp than this cold, cheerless place.
- Try to see it on a big screen for the full effect of its magnificent, cheerless vistas, which meld ice and sky in a horizonless prospect, highlighting the drama as if on a modernist stage.
- The walls and floors were of stone, and the room was bland and cheerless.
Synonyms gloomy, dreary, dull, dismal, bleak, drab, grim, sombre, dark, dim, dingy, funereal
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