cheerless
31dreary — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. drear, cheerless, gloomy, somber; depressing, lonely, wearisome, tedious. See dejection, weariness.Ant., bright, cheerful. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. gloomy, cheerless, bleak, drab; see dark 1 ,… …
32dismal — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from dismal, noun, days marked as unlucky in medieval calendars, from Anglo French, from Medieval Latin dies mali, literally, evil days Date: 15th century 1. obsolete disastrous, dreadful 2 …
33bleak — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. raw, desolate, unsheltered; cold; discouraging, inauspicious. See adversity. Ant., bright, cheerful. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Applied to countryside or conditions] Syn. dreary, desolate, bare,… …
34joyless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. cheerless, sad (see depression). Ant., joyful. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. doleful, heavy, dreary; see dismal 1 , sad 2 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Tending to cause sadness or low… …
35dark — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Lacking brightness] Syn. unlighted, unlit, dim, dusky, murky, gloomy, shadowy, somber, cloudy, foggy, sunless, lightless, indistinct, dull, faint, vague, misty, darkish, deep, drab, dingy, obscure, nebulous, shady,… …
36dismal — dismal, dreary, cheerless, dispiriting, bleak, desolate are comparable when they mean devoid of all that makes for cheer or comfort. Dismal and dreary are often interchangeable. Dismal may indicate extreme gloominess or somberness utterly… …
37comfortless — adj 1. dismal, inhospitable, drear, cheerless. See cheerless (def.1). 2. inconsolable, disconsolate, forlorn, woebegotten, sick at heart, wretched. See cheerless (def.2) …
38gloomy — [adj1] dark, black bleak, caliginous, cheerless, clouded, cloudy, crepuscular, desolate, dim, dismal, dreary, dull, dusky, forlorn, funereal, lightless, murky, obscure, overcast, overclouded, sepulchral, shadowy, somber, tenebrous, unilluminated …
39depressing — adjective causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy the economic outlook is depressing something cheerless about the room a moody and uncheerful person an uncheerful place • Syn: ↑cheerless, ↑uncheerful • …
40uncheerful — adjective causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy the economic outlook is depressing something cheerless about the room a moody and uncheerful person an uncheerful place • Syn: ↑depressing, ↑cheerless • …
