cheerless

1. 1.

   causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

   “the economic outlook is depressing”

   “something cheerless about the room”

   “a moody and uncheerful person”

   “an uncheerful place”

   Synonymsdepressinguncheerful

   Similarbluesomber

Other forms of cheerless

comparative

cheerlesser·

superlative

cheerlessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cheerless

What does cheerless mean?

cheerless means "causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy".

How many syllables are in cheerless?

cheerless has 2 syllables: cheer-less. The stress falls on "cheer".

What is another word for cheerless?

Close synonyms include depressing, uncheerful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cheerless a common word?

cheerless is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.