joyless
part of speech
adjective (more joyless, most joyless)
meaning for a pupil
Joyless means without joy, dull and sad. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means that King Jehoram died with no one sad to lose him. No mourning fire was lit for him and he was not buried among the kings. Interpretation: The tradition reads this as the sign of a wicked king, who was not honored in death. In the primary lessons: in the lessons, a joyless place or life is grey and miserable, with no happiness in it
examples
- Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years; and he departed joyless; and they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings. (Writings 2CH.21.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- The joyless house was grey and quiet. tree →
- They lived a joyless life after the war. tree →
- The shades led a joyless existence in the dark land. tree →
note
nothing for maths
Trees and pragmatics
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