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cheerlessness

2 definitions found for cheerlessness

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :


  Cheerless \Cheer"less\, a.
     Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv.
     -- Cheer"less*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
                                                    --Spenser.
  
     Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate;
          dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :


  cheerlessness
      n 1: a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness [syn:
           cheerlessness, uncheerfulness] [ant: blitheness,
           cheerfulness]