English > uncheerful: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. |
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| Examples | - "a moody and uncheerful person"
- "an uncheerful place"
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| Synonyms | depressing, cheerless |
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| Attribute of | cheerfulness, cheer, sunniness, sunshine | The quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom |
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| Narrower | blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary | Causing dejection |
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| somber, sombre, melancholy | Grave or even gloomy in character |
| See also | joyless | not experiencing or inspiring joy |
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| unhappy | Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent |
| Opposite | cheerful | Full of or promoting cheer |
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| Spanish | deprimente |
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| Catalan | depressiu, depriment |
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| Nouns | uncheerfulness | not conducive to cheer or good spirits |
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| uncheerfulness | a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness |