joyless
joyless adjective: without joy; unhappy, sad.
Adjective
joyless (comparative more joyless, superlative most joyless)
- Without joy; unhappy, sad.
- Without Joy, my life is joyless!
- The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 225
joyless meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
joyless in Hindi
- without joy
- अमोद amod
joyless in Urdu
- بےکیف, بےلطف, بےمزہ
joyless in Bengali
- আনন্দহীন, অসুখী, দুঃখিত
joyless in Malayalam
- glum, gloomy, melancholy
- സന്തോഷമില്ലാത്ത, ആഹ്ലാദമില്ലാത്ത, നിരാനന്ദ, വിഷണ്ണനായ, മ്ലാനതയുള്ള, വിഷണ്ണ
- cheerless, depressing, gloomy
- അസന്തോഷകരമായ, വിഷണ്ണമാക്കുന്ന, ഉന്മേഷം കെടുത്തുന്ന, മനസ്സിനു തളർച്ചയുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, നിരുത്സാഹം ഉണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, മ്ലാനം
Synonyms of joyless
Forms of joyless
| comparative | more joyless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most joyless |
Origin of joyless
From joy + -less.
Words formed from joyless
Questions about joyless
- What does joyless mean?
- Joyless means without joy; unhappy, sad.
- What is joyless in Hindi?
- Joyless in Hindi is अमोद (amod). See Joyless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is joyless?
- Joyless is an adjective.
Words near joyless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: joyless (page history and authors); joyless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); joyless (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); joyless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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