Cheerless

/ˈtʃɪrləs/
adjective

Lacking joy, happiness or comfort.

The room was dark and cheerless, he missed his old house.
Visual representation of "cheerless" - Lacking joy, happiness or comfort

Often appears as...

  • cheerless room
  • cheerless house
adjective

Not likely to give comfort or cheer.

The castaway was left on a cheerless, remote island.
Visual representation of "cheerless" - Not likely to give comfort or cheer

Often appears as...

  • cheerless island
  • cheerless environment
adjective

Lacking joy, happiness or comfort.

The room was dark and cheerless, he missed his old house.
Visual representation of "cheerless" - Lacking joy, happiness or comfort

Often appears as...

  • cheerless room
  • cheerless house
adjective

Not likely to give comfort or cheer.

The castaway was left on a cheerless, remote island.
Visual representation of "cheerless" - Not likely to give comfort or cheer

Often appears as...

  • cheerless island
  • cheerless environment
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Mood Descriptor

Use 'cheerless' to describe environments or scenes that evoke sadness or lack of joy.

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After the celebration ended, the streets were left cheerless and abandoned.
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Emotional Setting

Apply 'cheerless' to mirror a character's emotions by describing their surroundings.

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She entered her cheerless office, as empty as her heart felt that day.
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Not Person Descriptor

'Cheerless' is not typically used to describe people directly, more their aura or situation.

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Though he smiled, his eyes were cheerless, revealing his true feelings.
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Mood Descriptor

Use 'cheerless' to describe environments or scenes that evoke sadness or lack of joy.

Illustration for Mood Descriptor
After the celebration ended, the streets were left cheerless and abandoned.
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Emotional Setting

Apply 'cheerless' to mirror a character's emotions by describing their surroundings.

Illustration for Emotional Setting
She entered her cheerless office, as empty as her heart felt that day.
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Not Person Descriptor

'Cheerless' is not typically used to describe people directly, more their aura or situation.

Illustration for Not Person Descriptor
Though he smiled, his eyes were cheerless, revealing his true feelings.
LampPro Tip 1/3

Mood Descriptor

Use 'cheerless' to describe environments or scenes that evoke sadness or lack of joy.

Illustration for Mood Descriptor
After the celebration ended, the streets were left cheerless and abandoned.
LampPro Tip 2/3

Emotional Setting

Apply 'cheerless' to mirror a character's emotions by describing their surroundings.

Illustration for Emotional Setting
She entered her cheerless office, as empty as her heart felt that day.
LampPro Tip 3/3

Not Person Descriptor

'Cheerless' is not typically used to describe people directly, more their aura or situation.

Illustration for Not Person Descriptor
Though he smiled, his eyes were cheerless, revealing his true feelings.
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What Does Colonizing...

You don't have to fly into space, obviously, to go to Antarctica. But it's not easy to get to. And it's not easy to sustain life there. At the very bottom of the world, there's a cheerless land where the long night is 125 degrees

Video examples

What Does Colonizing...

You don't have to fly into space, obviously, to go to Antarctica. But it's not easy to get to. And it's not easy to sustain life there. At the very bottom of the world, there's a cheerless land where the long night is 125 degrees

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Quote examples

Kyle MacLachlan

American Actor

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.
Portrait of Kyle MacLachlan

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William Winwood Reade

Scottish Historian

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Portrait of William Winwood Reade

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Thomas de Quincey

English Author

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
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Quote examples

Kyle MacLachlan

American Actor

I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.
Portrait of Kyle MacLachlan

Quote examples

William Winwood Reade

Scottish Historian

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Portrait of William Winwood Reade

Quote examples

Thomas de Quincey

English Author

It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
Portrait of Thomas de Quincey
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