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# cheerless

adjective (cheerless, more cheerless, most cheerless)

«cheerless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Cheerless means gloomy, dull and without anything to make you happy or comfortable. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerless/#m1)

### In the lessons

Writers use it for cold rooms, grey days and sad places. In The Wind in the Willows, Toad's cell in the dungeon is cheerless, and the Wild Wood in winter is cold and cheerless; the warm, bright homes of Badger and Mole are the opposite.

### Examples

- It was a cold, cheerless day in November. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerless/#x1)
- The prison cell was dark and cheerless. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerless/#x2)
- The empty house felt cheerless. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerless/#x3)
- They ate a cheerless supper of dry bread. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerless/#x4)
- The Wild Wood was cheerless in the snow. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerless/#x5)
- A fire made the cheerless room warm again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerless/#x6)
- The belief of the people with regard to a future state was, in the Homeric age, a sad and cheerless one. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerless/#x7)

### Note

From «cheer» + «-less» (without). Opposite: cheerful, cosy.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cheerless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheerless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cheerless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cheerless.html) on Mova free.