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gladless

gladless adjective: joyless.

Adjective

gladless (comparative more gladless, superlative most gladless)

  1. joyless
    • […] Easter Sunday, for all its traditions, is a gladless day in London. There is positively nothing to do.1915, Ernest Temple Thurston, The City of Beautiful Nonsense, page 118
    • For others it has turned the joy and love of praising God into a gladless fulfillment of “their obligation.”1974, Casimir A. Kucharek, To Settle Your Conscience, page 112

Forms of gladless

comparativemore gladless
superlativemost gladless

Origin of gladless

From glad + -less.

Questions about gladless

What does gladless mean?
Gladless means joyless.
What part of speech is gladless?
Gladless is an adjective.

Words near gladless in the dictionary

  1. gladite
  2. gladius
  3. gladiuses
  4. gladiusite
  5. gladkaite
  6. gladless
  7. gladlier
  8. gladliest
  9. gladly
  10. gladly suffer fools
  11. Gladman

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