单词 | cheerless |
释义 | cheerless (once / 2445 pages) adj WORD FAMILY cheerless: cheerlessly, cheerlessness+/cheer: cheered, cheerer, cheerful, cheering, cheerless, cheers, cheery/cheerer: cheerers/cheerful: cheerfuler, cheerfulest, cheerfulness, uncheerful/cheerfulness: cheerfulnesses/cheering: cheeringly, cheerings/cheery: cheerier, cheeriest, cheerily/uncheerful: uncheerfully, uncheerfulness USAGE EXAMPLESThere are the same lonely bed-sits, rundown boardinghouses, cheerless cafes. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) After that, all through the cheerless days, she hugged the dream close. Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond(1958) And instead of that wonderful face lighting up when he spoke, he wore a cheerless mask. New York Times(Jun 04, 2016) adj causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy something cheerless about the room Syn|Ant depressing, uncheerful blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, grim, sorry causing dejection melancholy, somber, sombregrave or even gloomy in character unhappyexperiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent joylessnot experiencing or inspiring joy cheerful being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits beaming, gladcheerful and bright beamish, smiling, twinklysmiling with happiness or optimism blithe, blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsomecarefree and happy and lighthearted buoyant, chirpy, perkycharacterized by liveliness and lightheartedness cheery, gay, sunnybright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer chipper, debonair, debonaire, jauntyhaving a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air happyenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure gladshowing or causing joy and pleasure; especially made happy |
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