Thesaurus / cheerless
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IN PHOTOS: A YEAR IN SPORTS UNLIKE ANY OTHERKENDALL BAKERDECEMBER 24, 2020AXIOSIt was a cheerless morning when they got into the street, blowing and raining hard, and the clouds looking dull and stormy.
OLIVER TWIST, VOL. II (OF 3)CHARLES DICKENSPools of water stood in the miry streets, and every aspect of nature was cheerless and desolate.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTTThe night wind sweeps across the cheerless park, chilling us to the bone.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANIt is not, however, quite so barren and cheerless as in the immediate precincts of Dover.
TRAVELS THROUGH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE AND THE INTERIOR OF PROVINCES OF PROVENCE AND LANGUEDOC IN THE YEARS 1807 AND 1808LT-COL. PINKNEYIt was a cheerless morning, the sky being heavy and of slaty hue, whilst a brisk north-easter blew cold off the water.
YACHTING VOL. 2VARIOUS.It was, in fact, more cheerless than the barn, and less wholesome.
WAYSIDE COURTSHIPSHAMLIN GARLANDThe inhabitants were as cheerless as the land on which they lived.
CRITICAL MISCELLANIES (VOL. 2 OF 3)JOHN MORLEY"You have seen him," he repeated, when they sat once more in the cheerless room.
RIDERS OF THE SILENCESJOHN FREDERICKThe kail grows brittle from the snow in my dank and cheerless garden.
AULD LICHT IDYLLSJ. M. BARRIEWORDS RELATED TO CHEERLESS
- abject
- all torn up
- atrabilious
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- broody
- bummed out
- cast down
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- down in the mouth
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- mopey
- morose
- oppressed
- sad
- shot down
- singing the blues
- sunk
- troubled
- weighed down
- woebegone
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