Thesaurus:cheerless

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
• disconsolate
• dismal
• doleful
• dolesome
• drear
• dreary
• forlorn
• gayless
• gray
• gloomsome
• gloomy
• humorless
• jokeless
• joyless
• lack-laughter
• lugubrious
• melancholy
• mirthless
• miserable
• no joke
• saturnine
• solemn (obsolete)
• somber
• sombre
• spiritless
• sunless
• uncheerful
• unfunny
• unhappy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• wintry
• woeful

Antonyms

• blissful    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cheerful
• happy    [⇒ thesaurus]
• humorful
• joyful
• mirthful

Hyponyms

• ramshackle    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• dank
• dull
• epicedial
• flat
• funereal
• serious    [⇒ thesaurus]
• severe

See also

• Thesaurus:sad

Further reading

• “837. dejection” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “cheerless” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.