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A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness
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cheerlessness
Word definitions for cheerlessness in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness [syn: uncheerfulness ] [ant: cheerfulness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the state or characteristic of being cheerless
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheerless \Cheer"less\, a. Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly , adv. -- Cheer"less*ness , n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. --Spenser. Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn. ...
Usage examples of cheerlessness.
The room looked somehow garish, as though the Waverleys had gone one shade too bright near the end, perhaps in an effort to stave off the cheerlessness of their encroachingsituation.
After the silence and the cheerlessness of life in the Bentley house, she dreamed of stepping forth into an atmosphere that was warm and pulsating with life and reality.
He forgot the cheerlessness which he was about to face, the lonely night before him.
He returned to the room, its cheerlessness now only emphasised by the dogged ticking of the clock, and stood listening while the car moved off.
There was an atmosphere of cheerlessness that a half-thickened Welsbach mantle turned into positive ghastliness.
It stretched away vacant and dull in the gray cheerlessness of a winter's morning.
I, for one, found no joy in the work, colored as it was by his cheerlessness and dispassionate in dustry.