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JOYLESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not experiencing or inspiring joy

Example:

joyless evenings

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

funereal; sepulchral (suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial)

mirthless (lacking mirth)

unsmiling (not smiling)

Also:

cheerless; depressing; uncheerful (causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)

unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

Antonym:

joyous (full of or characterized by joy)

Derivation:

joylessness (a feeling of dismal cheerlessness)

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