unmerry
Adj
- Not merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
Adjective
- Not cheerful or joyful; sad.
Examples
- An UNMERRY groan escaped him when his opponent played a seven-letter word on a triple word score.
Origin / Etymology
From Old English unmyriġe (“unpleasant”), from un- + myriġe (“pleasant”). By surface analysis, un- + merry.
Synonyms
bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful
Scrabble Score: 12
unmerry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordunmerry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
unmerry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary