CHEERLESSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness

Synonyms:

cheerlessness; uncheerfulness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("cheerlessness" is a kind of...):

sadness; unhappiness (emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cheerlessness"):

joylessness (a feeling of dismal cheerlessness)

Antonym:

cheerfulness (a feeling of spontaneous good spirits)

Derivation:

cheerless (causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)