cheerless
Adjective
- causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- "something cheerless about the room"
Adj
- Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
Origin / Etymology
From cheer + -less.
Synonyms
depressing, uncheerful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bleak, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, comfortless, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, dire, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grim, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, no joke, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, somber, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, sunless, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, unmerry, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms
cheerful, blissful, dejected, depressed, discontented, dissatisfied, gloomy, happy, humorful, joyful, mirthful, miserable, sad, unhappy
Scrabble Score: 14
cheerless: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcheerless: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cheerless: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary