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 and divides as cheer-les-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.