JOYLESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does joyless mean? • JOYLESS (adjective)
The adjective JOYLESS has 1 sense:
1. not experiencing or inspiring joy
Familiarity information: JOYLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• JOYLESS (adjective)
Meaning:
Not experiencing or inspiring joy
Context examples:
a joyless man / a joyless occasion / joyless evenings
Similar:
funereal; sepulchral (suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial)
mirthless; unamused (lacking mirth)
unsmiling (not smiling)
Also:
cheerless; uncheerful (lacking cheer; depressing)
unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)
sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)
Antonym:
joyous (full of or characterized by joy)
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