| NOUN | feeling | cheerlessness, uncheerfulness | a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness |
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| Meaning | A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness. | |
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| Synonym | uncheerfulness | |
| Narrower | joylessness | A feeling of dismal cheerlessness |
| Broader | sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being |
| Opposite | cheerfulness, blitheness | A feeling of spontaneous good spirits |
| Adjectives | cheerless | causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |