Meaning | not experiencing or inspiring joy. | |
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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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