Thesaurus:cheerless
English
Adjective
Sense: devoid of cheer; gloomy (of a situation or disposition, more than of an emotion)
Synonyms
- cheerless
- comfortless
- bleak
- dark [⇒ thesaurus]
- depressing
- desolate
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- doleful
- dolesome
- drear
- drearisome
- dreary
- dreich (UK dialect)
- forlorn
- gayless
- gray
- gloomsome
- gloomy
- grim
- joyless
- lack-laughter
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- no joke
- saturnine
- solemn (obsolete)
- somber
- sombre
- spiritless
- sullen [⇒ thesaurus]
- sunless
- uncheerful
- uncheery
- unhappy [⇒ thesaurus]
- unmerry
- wintry
- woeful
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Various
See also
Further reading
- “837. dejection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “cheerless” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.