Thesaurus / mirthless
other words for mirthless
MOST RELEVANT
- gloomy
- grim
- mournful
- pensive
- somber
- sorrowful
- trite
- wistful
- blue
- down
- downbeat
- downcast
- low
- moody
- dejected
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- doleful
- dolorous
- down and out
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downhearted
- dragged
- droopy
- funereal
- glum
- heavyhearted
- in blue funk
- joyless
- lachrymose
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- miserable
- moony
- saddened
- saddening
- sorry
- torn up
- unhappy
- wet blanket
- woebegone
- woeful
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Tatsu's mirthless laugh rang out against the sound of dripping rain.
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Again she laughed that almost mirthless laugh for which her mother had called her to account a moment before.
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Yet more similar are the speeches of the madmen with their horrible words, and those of fools with their mirthless puns.
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He laughed, a nervous, mirthless kind of laugh, and slipped his rifle to his other hand.
THE ARENAVARIOUS
He laughed, with that cruel, mirthless inflection so characteristic.
THE GHOST BREAKERCHARLES GODDARD
The other laughed—the dry, mirthless laugh which was the only form of merriment in which he ever seemed to indulge.
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Baltimore gave a hollow mirthless laugh, stopped short, and looked at Charles Fox.
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WORDS RELATED TO MIRTHLESS
- blue funk
- broody
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- forlorn
- glum
- in low spirits
- in the dumps
- joyless
- low
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- moody
- moping
- mopish
- morose
- mournful
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- saturnine
- solemn
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- ugly
- unhappy
- weary
- woebegone
- woeful
- blue
- dejected
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- doleful
- dolorous
- down
- down and out
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downbeat
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- droopy
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- grim
- heavyhearted
- in blue funk
- joyless
- lachrymose
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- mirthless
- miserable
- moody
- moony
- mournful
- pensive
- saddened
- saddening
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- torn up
- trite
- unhappy
- wet blanket
- wistful
- woebegone
- woeful
- black
- bleak
- blue
- blue funk
- broody
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dark
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- dreary
- forlorn
- glum
- in low spirits
- in the dumps
- joyless
- low
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- moody
- moping
- mopish
- morose
- mournful
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- saturnine
- solemn
- somber
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- ugly
- unhappy
- weary
- woebegone
- woeful
- bleak
- bleeding
- blue
- bummed out
- cheerless
- crestfallen
- dejected
- depressed
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- down
- down and out
- down in the mouth
- downbeat
- downcast
- dragged
- dreary
- gloomy
- grim
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in a blue funk
- in pain
- in the dumps
- let-down
- long-faced
- low
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- mournful
- oppressive
- put away
- ripped
- saddened
- sorrowful
- sorry
- teary
- troubled
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.