All cheerless synonyms
cheerΒ·less
C c adjective cheerless
- depressing β Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- unhappy β sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
- dour β sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- morose β gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
adj cheerless
- austere β If you describe something as austere, you approve of its plain and simple appearance.
- black β lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- bleak β If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
- blue β Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
- dark β When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.
- dejected β If you are dejected, you feel miserable or unhappy, especially because you have just been disappointed by something.
- depressed β If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.
- desolate β A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
- despondent β If you are despondent, you are very unhappy because you have been experiencing difficulties that you think you will not be able to overcome.
- disconsolate β without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
- dismal β causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
- dolorous β full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful: a dolorous melody; dolorous news.
- drab β dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc.
- dreary β causing sadness or gloom.
- dull β not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- forlorn β desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
- funereal β of or suitable for a funeral.
- gloomy β dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- grim β stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- jarring β to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
- joyless β without joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war.
- melancholy β sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- miserable β wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- oppressive β burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical: an oppressive king; oppressive laws.
- sad β Systems Analysis Definition
- somber β gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
- sorrowful β full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- sullen β showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
- uncomfortable β causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- wintry β of or characteristic of winter: wintry blasts; wintry skies.
- woebegone β beset with woe; affected by woe, especially in appearance.
- woeful β full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
- comfortless β to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to: They tried to comfort her after her loss.
- dispiriting β to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
- tenebrific β producing darkness.
- draggy β moving or developing very slowly.
- drearily β causing sadness or gloom.
- in the dumps β a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the): to be in the dumps over money problems.
- mopey β languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.