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Etymology

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From un- +‎ joyful.

Adjective

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unjoyful (comparative more unjoyful, superlative most unjoyful)

  1. 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 !

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