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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cheerless \Cheer"less\, adjective Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- {Cheer"less*ly}, adverb -- {Cheer"less*ness}, noun
My cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. --Spenser.
Syn: Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; disconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cheerless
adjective: lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" [syn: {uncheerful}] [ant: {cheerful}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "cheerless": affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, anguished, anxious, apathetic, bitter, bleak, bored, comfortless, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, despairing, desperate, despondent, discomforting, disconsolate, discontented, disgusted, dismal, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, forlorn, funereal, grievous, grim, hopeless, humorless, in bad humor, in despair, infestive, joyless, lamentable, mirthless, miserable, mournful, moving, nauseated, nauseous, oppressive, out of humor, out of sorts, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pleasureless, poignant, prey to malaise, regrettable, repelled, revolted, rueful, sad, saddening, sharp, sickened, somber, sore, sorrowful, sorry, sorryish, suffering angst, touching, uncheerful, uncheery, uncomfortable, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungratified, unhappy, unhopeful, unjoyful, unmirthful, unquiet, unsatisfied, unsmiling, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wretched
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