cheerless

Adjective

cheerless (comparative more cheerless, superlative most cheerless)

1. Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
   • I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Ramadan”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 96
   • Men, women and children work together seven days in the week in these cheerless tenements to make a living for the family, from the break of day till far into the night.1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 138

   Synonyms:

   atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up

   Antonyms:

   cheerful, berserk, blissed out, blithe, buoyant, chirpy, blithesome, bonnie, bright, cheerly