Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Cheerless; dismal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Destitute of joy; having no joy; sad.
- Affording no joy or pleasure.
Wiktionary
- adj. without joy; unhappy, sad
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not experiencing or inspiring joy
Examples
“Investors concerned by evidence of what is being called a joyless recovery.”
“Then Mr. Mill's life as disclosed to us in these pages has been called joyless, by that sect of religious partisans whose peculiarity is to mistake boisterousness for unction.”
“The word "joyless" does come up only once, but the paragraphs around it describe a campaign, and a candidate wearied by the meaningless mini-events he has to attend.”
“At the same time and Election Central seized on the word "joyless" as its primary take on the article.”
“The piece, which has just gone up online, argues that the Edwards campaign is "joyless" and is hampered by a sense that the campaign is little more than a vehicle for him to discuss his signature issue of poverty.”
“The word "joyless" only showed up once in the article.”
“What kind of joyless existence must these people live?”
“I don’t know what kind of joyless asshat you have to be to dump on something that was significant to someone else”
Why review comics? or, the Fight Club syndrome | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
“I don't know what kind of joyless asshat you have to be to dump on something that was significant to someone else, but after spelunking through comic book forums the last year or two, I'm starting to get the picture...”
Why review comics? or, the Fight Club syndrome | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
“And yet their dominant collective emotion sometimes seems to be a kind of joyless, anticipatory fear.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘joyless’.
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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Sorrow is better than laughter; for b...
lachrymose, melancholic, sorrow, wail, mournful, sob, misery, wretchedness, anguish, agony, heartbreak, lament and 38 more...
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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likaluca's Words
recursive, genuflect, libidinous, emote, smote, importune, trill, chillax, overshare, shorn, needle, ego and 162 more...
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Setting the Scene: Dark and Dreary
Words that lend to the dark and dreary atmosphere of gothic literature.
dark, dreary, shroud, shrouded, veiled, skeleton, skeletal, dead, death, murky, gloomy, lugubrious and 274 more...
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Numbrella ☂
Unfeeling; comfortably dry.
"Ella, ella, ella..."schmaltzy, nonchalant, joyless, aloof, lifeless, indifferent, dead, uninspired, lethargic, preoccupied, distant, removed and 50 more...
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