unjoyful
English edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
unjoyful (comparative more unjoyful, superlative most unjoyful)
- Not joyful; unhappy; joyless; sad.
- 1871, Thomas Carlyle, The guillotine - Page 55:
- One night, nevertheless, in the splendour of one such scene, he sees himself suddenly apostrophised by a squalid unjoyful Figure, who has come in uninvited, nay despite of all lackeys ; an unjoyful Figure !