cheerless

«cheerless» in Mova's school dictionary: gloomy, dull and without anything to make you happy or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (cheerless, more cheerless, most cheerless)

meaning for a pupil

Cheerless means gloomy, dull and without anything to make you happy or comfortable. tree →

sense 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 →
• The prison cell was dark and cheerless. tree →
• The empty house felt cheerless. tree →
• They ate a cheerless supper of dry bread. tree →
• The Wild Wood was cheerless in the snow. tree →
• A fire made the cheerless room warm again. tree →
• The belief of the people with regard to a future state was, in the Homeric age, a sad and cheerless one. tree →

note

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

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cheerless» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.