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[ UK /t‍ʃˈi‍ələs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
    something cheerless about the room
    a moody and uncheerful person
    the economic outlook is depressing
    an uncheerful place

How To Use cheerless In A Sentence

  • Try to see it on a big screen for the full effect of its magnificent, cheerless vistas, which meld ice and sky in a horizonless prospect, highlighting the drama as if on a modernist stage.
  • It serves only to cast a chill upon intellectual and creative activities and to turn the serious business of law enforcement into a cheerless farce.
  • After three days 'parley I had just concluded my bargain with his breechless majesty, when a "barker" greeted me with the cheerless message that the "Aguila" was surrounded by man-of-war boats! Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
  • something cheerless about the room
  • He smiled a cheerless smile, ‘Welcome,’ he whispered, ‘to your destiny.’
  • It looks oddly bleak and cheerless - and if you look carefully you can see that where the water splashes down, it has frozen into a mound of ice.
  • It was a strange combination of weather and location - something as pretty as snow, falling on the sleaze and cheerlessness of Kings Cross.
  • The applause at the mention of his name is dutiful and cheerless.
  • She could see the lush green lawn, and a tall willow tree at one corner, but the gray sky and drizzling rain added the cheerlessness in her mood.
  • Abandoned as a newborn infant in a shoe box and left behind an Italian restaurant in an English city in 1965, Rebecca is adopted by a cheerless couple who have little feel for parenting.
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