Crossword clues for cheerless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"devoid of comfort," 1570s, from cheer (n.) + -less. Related: Cheerlessly; cheerlessness.\n
Wiktionary
a. devoid of cheer; gloomy
WordNet
adj. lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" [syn: uncheerful] [ant: cheerful]
Usage examples of "cheerless".
It was a cheerless journey along white-tiled corridors until the trolley pushed its way into the anaesthetics room.
Dozens of factions were quarantined in cheerless redemption camps, isolated from one another, their lives pared to a grim frugality.
She peeped into all the cheerless chambers, then returned to the door.
It might not have looked so cheerless and cold when it was occupied, with curtains at the windows, books on the shelves, clothing hanging from the pegs behind a curtain in the corner .
At that moment, too, Dick Lee came tiptoeing in from his cheerless garret, and looking astonishingly spruce.
To see him in his coarse clothing, his huge boots, and his ragged cap, as he staggered with a pail of water from the well, or trudged in the cold and cheerless dawn out into the frosty field behind his team, gave the city-bred visitor a sharp pang of sympathetic pain.
Poor dwellings, mean and cheerless, are interspersed with factories and one or two small shops.
There was plenty of activity for it was used as a fighter station in the defense of London, but nothing seemed to be landing or taking off as Genevieve peered out of the window of the rather cheerless Nissen hut they'd been taken to on arrival.
As she trailed behind the trio, now inspecting the cheerless and sterilely neat dormitories, she would have been glad enough to receive Lars's pinch.
In the six years since Shawn Curl had purchased the place from Leroy and Sheeba Barnwell, the once-exotic menagerie had shrunk to its current cheerless census of one emaciated lion, two balding llamas, three goats, a blind boa constrictor, and seventeen uncontrollably nasty raccoons.
He ranged far and wide, and slept but little in the lair that had now become cheerless and miserable.
I wasn't surprised by his edginess, because the stairwell was sufficiently cheerless and oppressive to give the heebiejeebies to a Prozac-popping nun with an attitude as sweet as marzipan.
The Henrys received one cheerless letter from Madeline, written when she arrived in Newport for the summer.
The clouds shut out any other sky completely, and under their cold weight the day dawned bleak and cheerless, irremediably aggrieved.
They found their dwelling on the hill not half prepared for them, leaking and cold and cheerless.