cheerless

[US]/'tʃɪəlɪs/
[UK]/'tʃɪrləs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking cheer; lacking happiness; gloomy; desolate.

Example Sentences

a cheerless rainy day

The cheerless weather matched her mood perfectly.

The old abandoned house looked dark and cheerless.

He gave a cheerless smile as he walked past.

The cheerless news cast a shadow over the entire community.

The cheerless atmosphere in the room made everyone uncomfortable.

She lived in a cheerless apartment with no decorations.

The cheerless expression on his face revealed his disappointment.

The cheerless landscape stretched out before us, devoid of life.

The cheerless tone of his voice indicated his lack of enthusiasm.

The cheerless prospect of unemployment weighed heavily on his mind.

Real-world Examples

It was already night, cold and cheerless, the heavens being overcast with clouds which seemed to threaten snow.

Source: Around the World in Eighty Days

Our cheerless room was flooded with color.

Source: Storyline Online English Stories

The world had been so cheerless!

Source: Red characters

It was bare, cheerless, and horrid.

Source: Blade (Part 1)

Yet was the outside not half so cheerless as the interior.

Source: Seven-angled Tower (Part 2)

A dozen of these yokels, red-eyed, cheerless as scarecrows, saw the incident.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

Then in a taxi they rode along cheerless streets through a dank November night.

Source: The Night is Gentle (Part Two)

However, the poor child got more cheerless every day, and looked so thin and pale that Sebastian became worried.

Source: Heidi

It was already evening, cold and cheerless, and the sky was overcast. The train left the station on time.

Source: 11. Around the World in 80 Days (29 completed articles)

Don't kill the birds! the pretty birds, That play among the trees; For earth would be a cheerless place, If it were not for these.

Source: American Original Language Arts Third Volume

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