cheerlessly

1. 1.

   in an unhappy manner

   “he cheerlessly set out to do the task”

   Antonymscheerfully

Questions about cheerlessly

What does cheerlessly mean?

cheerlessly means "in an unhappy manner".

How many syllables are in cheerlessly?

cheerlessly has 3 syllables: cheer-les-sly. The stress falls on "cheer".

What is the opposite of cheerlessly?

The recorded antonyms are cheerfully.

Is cheerlessly a common word?

cheerlessly 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.