gladless

English

Etymology

glad +‎ -less

Adjective

gladless (comparative more gladless, superlative most gladless)

1. joyless
   • 1915, Ernest Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense, page 118:

     […] Easter Sunday, for all its traditions, is a gladless day in London. There is positively nothing to do.

   • 1974, Casimir A. Kucharek, To Settle Your Conscience, page 112:

     For others it has turned the joy and love of praising God into a gladless fulfillment of “their obligation.”