Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cheerlessness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cheerless \Cheer"less\, a.
Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- {Cheer"less*ly}, adv.
-- {Cheer"less*ness}, n.
My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. --Spenser.
Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate;
dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cheerlessness
n : a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness [syn: {uncheerfulness}]
[ant: {cheerfulness}]
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