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[ joi-lis ] / ˈdʒɔɪ lɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR joyless ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivewithout joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war. causing no joy or pleasure. Origin of joylessFirst recorded in 1300–50, joyless is from the Middle English word joyles.See joy, -less SYNONYMS FOR joyless1 sad, cheerless, gloomy, dismal, miserable. SEE SYNONYMS FOR joyless ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR joylessSEE ANTONYMS FOR joyless ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM joylessjoy·less·ly, adverbjoy·less·ness, nounWords nearby joylessjoy buzzer, Joyce, Joycean, Joyce, James, joyful, joyless, Joyner, Joyner-Kersee, joyous, joypad, joypop Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for joylessI mean, what kind of joyless world are we leaving for our children? Why Your Kids Must Watch ‘South Park’|Nick Gillespie|September 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST If married life is as boring and joyless as this document, I am glad I am celibate. Did the Pope Just Wink at Gay Marriage?|Barbie Latza Nadeau|June 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST The quintessentially American lesson he learns is never to be joyless. A History of American Fun|Stefan Beck|February 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST The traffic was as light as if it were some joyless holiday. Hurricane Sandy Victim Jacob Vogelman’s Mother Remembers His Life|Michael Daly|November 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The man was like a dark cloud—rather like having a joyless loan officer run the country. What Cameron Is Up Against|Tunku Varadarajan|May 12, 2010|DAILY BEAST It must not be supposed that young Willard's home was gloomy and joyless, because it was presided over by a religious woman. Sword and Pen|John Algernon Owens Poggibonsi was revealed to her as they sang—a joyless, straggling place, full of people who pretended. Where Angels Fear to Tread|E. M. Forster Is Baddenskey, who sits wearily at his loom down there in joyless Spitalfields, a descendant? A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia|Walter White Perhaps envy, more than virtue, will put me upon setting up beacons for them, when I grow old and joyless. Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9)|Samuel Richardson In the palpable and griping winter, death itself seemed to wind around him its skeleton and joyless arms. Ernest Maltravers, Complete|Edward Bulwer-Lytton
British Dictionary definitions for joyless
adjectivehaving or producing no joy or pleasure Derived forms of joylessjoylessly, adverbjoylessness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to joylessdowncast, dejected, dreary, depressing, dismal, miserable, bleak, black, blue, cheerless, depressant, depressed, dispirited, doleful, down in the mouth, droopy, gloomy, heavy, low, melancholy |