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rejoiceless

rejoiceless adjective: without rejoicing.

Adjective

rejoiceless (comparative more rejoiceless, superlative most rejoiceless)

  1. Without rejoicing
    • Terror guarded the mid-region
      Where everything was Greeks
      And I needed to risk it
      In the dark
      And rejoiceless heart
      Of helplessness2002, Donald Revell, Arcady, page 70
    • Feminine doves, also suggesting the form of the Holy Spirit, nest in these "Caves of Passion," which are "voiceless," yet not "rejoiceless."2007, Margaret Diane Stetz, Cheryl Ann Wilson, Michael Field and their world, page 187

Antonyms of rejoiceless

Forms of rejoiceless

comparativemore rejoiceless
superlativemost rejoiceless

Origin of rejoiceless

From rejoice + -less.

Questions about rejoiceless

What does rejoiceless mean?
Rejoiceless means without rejoicing.
What part of speech is rejoiceless?
Rejoiceless is an adjective.

Words near rejoiceless in the dictionary

  1. rejoice
  2. rejoiced
  3. rejoiceful
  4. rejoicefully
  5. rejoicefulness
  6. rejoiceless
  7. rejoicement
  8. rejoicements
  9. rejoicer
  10. rejoicers
  11. rejoices

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