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Definition of Cheerless
1. Adjective. Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. "An uncheerful place"
Attributes: Cheer, Cheerfulness, Sunniness, Sunshine
Similar to: Blue, Dark, Dingy, Disconsolate, Dismal, Drab, Drear, Dreary, Gloomy, Grim, Sorry, Melancholy, Somber, Sombre
Also: Unhappy, Joyless
Derivative terms: Cheerlessness, Uncheerfulness, Uncheerfulness
Antonyms: Cheerful
Definition of Cheerless
1. a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
Definition of Cheerless
1. Adjective. devoid of cheer; gloomy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cheerless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheerless
Literary usage of Cheerless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... Wellington —King George's Sound—cheerless Aspect of the Country—Bald Head,
calcareous casts of branches of Trees—Party of Natives—Leave Australia. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... Wellington —King George's Sound—cheerless Aspect of the Country—Bald Head,
calcareous casts of branches of Trees—Party of Natives— Leave Australia. ..."
3. The War for the Rhine Frontier, 1870: Its Political and Military History by Wilhelm Rüstow, John Layland Needham (1872)
"Such was the military situation of the belligerents at the end of September, and
such were the cheerless prospects of both parties after the shipwreck of ..."
4. The Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narrative of the Discovery of by Francis Leopold M'Clintock (1860)
"Proceed westward in a boat — cheerless state of the western sea — Struggles in
Ballot Strait — Falcons, good Arctic fare — The resources of Boothia Felix ..."
5. Perley's Reminiscences of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore (1886)
"Washington City profited by its encircling garrison cheerless BIVOUACS. of one
hundred and fifty thousand men, and its population of civilians increased ..."
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