cheerless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
    depressing; uncheerful.
    • the economic outlook is depressing
    • something cheerless about the room
    • a moody and uncheerful person
    • an uncheerful place

WordNet


Cheer"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n.
    My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser.
    Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.

Webster 1913