cheerless
Meanings
Adjective
- causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- "something cheerless about the room"
Adj
- Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
Origin / Etymology
From cheer + -less.
Synonyms
atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dire, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grim, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, sunless, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms
blissful, cheerful, dejected, depressed, discontented, dissatisfied, gloomy, happy, humorful, joyful, mirthful, miserable, sad, unhappy
Scrabble Score: 14
cheerless is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcheerless is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cheerless is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary