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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

bleak, depressing, and gloomy, lacking in joy or cheer;

e.g. The room was bare and cheerless, with minimal furniture and no color or decorations. She spoke in a cheerless voice.

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Similar Words

Black

Bleak

Careworn

Chill

Cimmerian

Cloudy

Cold

Dark

Depressing

Depressive

Desolate

Dire

Disconsolate

Dismal

Dreary

Elegiac

Forlorn

Funereal

Gloomy

Glum

Godforsaken

Gray

Grey

Howling

Lonely

Lonesome

Lugubrious

Miserable

Morbid

Morose

Murky

Plutonian

Saturnine

Sepulchral

Solemn

Somber

Suicidal

Sullen

Sunless

Tenebrific

Tenebrous

Unpropitious

Wretched

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Opposite Words

Auspicious

Beamish

Blithe

Bullish

Buoyant

Cheery

Encouraging

Fair

Festive

Fulfilling

Gay

Glad

Gleeful

Golden

Gratifying

Heartwarming

Hopeful

Jocose

Jocular

Jocund

Jolly

Jovial

Joyful

Joyous

Lighthearted

Likely

Merry

Optimistic

Overjoyed

Promising

Propitious

Rewarding

Rose-colored

Roseate

Rosy

Satisfying

Sunny

Unthreatening

Upbeat

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Related Words

Agonized

Anguished

Austere

Baleful

Bearish

Bitter

Blue

Brokenhearted

Cloudy

Colorless

Crestfallen

Dejected

Depressed

Despairing

Desperate

Despondent

Dim

Dire

Direful

Disconsolate

Dismaying

Distressful

Doleful

Dolorous

Doomy

Dour

Down

Downbeat

Downcast

Downhearted

Drab

Dull

Fierce

Flinty

Forbidding

Foreboding

Forlorn

Funeral

Gloomy

Glum

Grim

Gruff

Hangdog

Hazy

Heartbroken

Heartsick

Hopeless

Ill-boding

Inauspicious

Inconsolable

Lamentable

Low

Low-spirited

Lowering

Lugubrious

Melancholic

Melancholy

Menacing

Minatory

Miserable

Mournful

Negative

Ominous

Oppressive

Overcast

Pessimistic

Plaintive

Plangent

Portentous

Regretful

Rough

Rueful

Rugged

Sad

Severe

Sinister

Sorrowful

Sorry

Stark

Starkly

Steely

Stern

The

Threatening

Ungentle

Unhappy

Upsetting

Weeping

Woebegone

Woeful

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