| Meaning | not experiencing or inspiring joy. | |
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| Examples |
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| Narrower | funereal, sepulchral | suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial |
| mirthless | lacking mirth | |
| unsmiling | not smiling | |
| See also | depressing, cheerless, uncheerful | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |
| sorrowful | Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss | |
| unhappy | Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent | |
| Opposite | joyous | Full of or characterized by joy |
| Spanish | desdichado, sin alegría, triste | |
| Nouns | joylessness | a feeling of dismal cheerlessness |
| Adverbs | joylessly | in a joyless manner |
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