Synonyms for cheerless
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Desolate
desolate, dismal, disconsolate, dreary, melancholy, dark, gloomy, joyless, forlorn, somber US, sombre UK, bleak, doleful, depressing, sad, miserable, grim, sullen, dull, wretched, lugubrious, drab, sorrowful
Other
down-hearted, lack-laughter dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- lacking
Example sentences
- dreary I've got to go to another dreary meeting tomorrow.
- somber We heard somber hollow sounds from the cave.
- joyless Other Jewish subgroups often stereotype Ashkenazim as boring and joyless.
- disconsolate A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| cheerless | rising | |
| dreary | rising | |
| somber | rising | |
| joyless | rising | |
| disconsolate | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- sad1
- 4 letters
- dark1, dull1, grim1, drab1
- 5 letters
- bleak1
- 6 letters
- gloomy2, dismal2, dreary2, somber2, sombre, sullen2
- 7 letters
- forlorn2, joyless, doleful2
- 8 letters
- wretched2, desolate3
- 9 letters
- miserable4, sorrowful3
- 10 letters
- depressing3, melancholy4, lugubrious4
- 12 letters
- disconsolate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gloomy2 = 2 syllables).