MEANING
Gloomy or lacking qualities that give pleasure, warmth, or encouragement.
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- cheerless room
- cheerless morning
- cheerless prospect
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The room looked cheerless after the flowers were removed.
A cheerless morning followed the storm.
The station presented a cheerless prospect.
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- cheerless
Usage notes
Primary category: setting. Forms: More cheerless; most cheerless. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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