My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
--Spenser.
Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
cheerlessly — cheerless ► ADJECTIVE ▪ gloomy; depressing. DERIVATIVES cheerlessly adverb cheerlessness noun … English terms dictionary
cheerlessly — adverb in an unhappy manner he cheerlessly set out to do the task • Ant: ↑cheerfully … Useful english dictionary
cheerlessly — adverb see cheerless … New Collegiate Dictionary
cheerlessly — See cheerless. * * * … Universalium
cheerlessly — adverb In a cheerless manner … Wiktionary
cheerlessly — adv. grumpily, angrily; dismally, gloomily … English contemporary dictionary
cheerlessly — cheer·less·ly … English syllables
cheerless — cheerlessly, adv. cheerlessness, n. /chear lis/, adj. without cheer; joyless; gloomy: drab, cheerless surroundings. [1570 80; CHEER + LESS] * * * … Universalium
cheerless — adjective Date: 1579 lacking qualities that cheer ; bleak, joyless < a cheerless room > Synonyms: see dismal • cheerlessly adverb • cheerlessness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
Théodore de Banville — Théodore Faullain de Banville (March 14 1823 ndash;March 13 1891) was a French poet and writer.BiographyHe was born in Moulins in Allier, Auvergne, the son of a captain in the French navy. His boyhood, by his own account, was cheerlessly passed… … Wikipedia
