cheerless

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cheerless

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adjective more cheerless · most cheerless

Devoid of cheer; gloomy. I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; […]
Similar: atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp · Opposite: cheerful, berserk, blissed out, blithe, buoyant, chirpy, blithesome, bonnie, bright, cheerly, cheery, chuffed

Opposite: blissful, cheerful, happy, humorful, joyful, mirthful

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adjective

Opposite: blissful, cheerful, happy, humorful, joyful, mirthful

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adj Devoid of cheer

हिन्दी	अमोद amod

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@misc{cheerless_2026,
  title = {cheerless},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cheerless},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}