Usually means: Lacking joy, happiness, or brightness.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word cheerless:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. cheerless: Merriam-Webster
  2. cheerless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cheerless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cheerless: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cheerless: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cheerless, cheerless: Wordnik
  7. cheerless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cheerless: Wiktionary
  9. cheerless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cheerless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cheerless: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cheerless: Dictionary.com
  13. Cheerless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cheerless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cheerless: Rhymezone
  16. Cheerless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cheerless: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. cheerless: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cheerless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. cheerless: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. cheerless: Dictionary.com
  22. cheerless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cheerless: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Devoid of cheer; gloomy.

Similar:
uncheerful, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, depressing, drear, dreary, sorry, grim, somber, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, jolly, happy, glad, merry

Phrases:
having a cheerless aspect, cold and cheerless, dark and cheerless, more...

Adjectives:
brief, same, most, little, sun, dark, narrow, dogged, cold, present, dampest



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Similar:
uncheerful, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, depressing, drear, dreary, sorry, grim, somber, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, jolly, happy, glad, merry

Phrases:
having a cheerless aspect, cold and cheerless, dark and cheerless, more...

Adjectives:
brief, same, most, little, sun, dark, narrow, dogged, cold, present, dampest



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