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- Dictionaryjoyless/ˈdʒɔɪlɪs/
adjective
- 1. not giving or feeling any pleasure or satisfaction; grim or dismal: "she had to face the thought of a joyless future" Similar Opposite
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Joy is the emotion of well-being, success, or good fortune, or the expression or exhibition of such emotion. Joyless means lacking joy or happiness. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related phrases of joy.
being without happiness or pleasure:
Joyless definition: without joy or gladness; unhappy. See examples of JOYLESS used in a sentence.
Joyless means having or producing no joy or pleasure. It is a formal adjective that can describe something or someone. See synonyms, pronunciation, collocations, sentences and word origin of joyless.
not experiencing or inspiring joy. “a joyless man”. “a joyless occasion”. “ joyless evenings”. synonyms: cheerless, depressing, uncheerful. causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. unhappy. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent.
Joyless means not experiencing or inspiring joy or pleasure. Find the origin, usage, and examples of joyless and its related words, such as cheerless, depressing, and gloomy.
Definition of joyless adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
