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UNCHEERFUL

Dictionary entry overview: What does uncheerful mean?

• UNCHEERFUL (adjective)
The adjective UNCHEERFUL has 1 sense:

1. lacking cheer; depressing

Familiarity information: UNCHEERFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UNCHEERFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Lacking cheer; depressing

Synonyms:

cheerless; uncheerful

Context examples:

something cheerless about the room / a moody and uncheerful person / an uncheerful place

Similar:

blue; dark; depressing; dingy; disconsolate; dismal; dispiriting; drab; drear; dreary; gloomy; grim; sorry (causing dejection)

melancholy; somber; sombre (grave or even gloomy in character)

Also:

unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)

joyless (not experiencing or inspiring joy)

Attribute:

cheer; cheerfulness; sunniness; sunshine (the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom)

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