joyless

joyless
joyless (adj.) mid-14c., from JOY (Cf. joy) + -LESS (Cf. -less). Related: Joylessly; joylessness.

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  • Joyless — Allgemeine Informationen Genre(s) Black Metal, Rock, Shoegazing Gründung 1996 Website …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • joyless — index bleak (not favorable), bleak (severely simple), despondent, disconsolate, grave (solemn), lamentable, lugubrious …   Law dictionary

  • joyless — [adj] unhappy black, bleak, blue, cheerless, dejected, depressant, depressed, depressing, dismal, dispirited, dispiriting, doleful, downcast, down in the mouth*, dragged, dreary, droopy, gloomy, have the blahs*, heavy*, low, melancholic,… …   New thesaurus

  • joyless — [joi′lis] adj. without joy; unhappy; sad joylessly adv. joylessness n …   English World dictionary

  • joyless — [[t]ʤɔ͟ɪləs[/t]] ADJ GRADED Something that is joyless produces no happiness or pleasure. [FORMAL] His work load, meanwhile, had become so enormous that life seemed joyless... Eating in East Berlin used to be a hazardous and joyless experience.… …   English dictionary

  • joyless — adjective not experiencing or inspiring joy a joyless man a joyless occasion joyless evenings • Ant: ↑joyous • Similar to: ↑funereal, ↑sepulchral, ↑mirthless …   Useful english dictionary

  • joyless — adjective 1) a joyless man Syn: gloomy, melancholy, morose, lugubrious, glum, somber, saturnine, sullen, dour, humorless Ant: cheerful 2) a joyless room …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • joyless — joylessly, adv. joylessness, n. /joy lis/, adj. 1. without joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war. 2. causing no joy or pleasure. [1300 50; ME joyles. See JOY, LESS] Syn. 1. sad, cheerless, gloomy, dismal, miserable. Ant. 1. joyous …   Universalium

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