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- Dictionarycheerless/ˈtʃɪələs/
adjective
- 1. gloomy; depressing: "the corridors were ill-lit and cheerless"
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adjective. uk/ˈtʃɪə.ləs/us/ˈtʃɪr.ləs/ Add to word listAdd to word list. not bright or pleasant and making you feel sad: a cold and cheerless winter afternoon. a bare, cheerless apartment. Synonym. depressing. Opposite. cheerful. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Saddening, shocking and upsetting. affecting. agonizingly. arrogance.
The meaning of CHEERLESS is lacking qualities that cheer : bleak, joyless. How to use cheerless in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Cheerless.
not bright or pleasant and making you feel sad: a cold and cheerless winter afternoon. a bare, cheerless apartment. Synonym. depressing. Opposite. cheerful. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Saddening, shocking and upsetting. affecting. agonizingly. arrogance. baleful. be cold comfort idiom. distressfully. distressingly. dolorous.
Definitions of cheerless. adjective. causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. “something cheerless about the room”. synonyms: depressing, uncheerful. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry. causing dejection. melancholy, somber, sombre. grave or even gloomy in character.
Cheerless definition: without cheer; joyless; gloomy. See examples of CHEERLESS used in a sentence.
Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing. The kitchen was dank and cheerless. ...a bleak, cheerless day. Synonyms: gloomy, dark, depressing, dull More Synonyms of cheerless. More Synonyms of cheerless. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
Definition of cheerless adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
