uncheerfulness

Other forms of uncheerfulness

plural

uncheerfulnesses·

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 uncheerfulness

What does uncheerfulness mean?

uncheerfulness means "a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uncheerfulness?

uncheerfulness has 4 syllables: un-cheer-ful-ness. The stress falls on "cheer".

What is another word for uncheerfulness?

Close synonyms include cheerlessness. 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.

What is the opposite of uncheerfulness?

The recorded antonyms are cheerfulness.

Is uncheerfulness a common word?

uncheerfulness 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.