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Synonyms of comfortless

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Another word for comfortless is depressing. Other synonyms of comfortless are grim, melancholy, dreary, miserable and gloomy.

Synonyms and similar words for comfortless

adjectiveOf a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.

  • bleakUnhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
  • drearyDrab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
  • cheerlessDevoid of cheer; gloomy.
  • darkConducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
  • moroseSullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
  • depressingCausing depression or sadness.
  • desolateDismal or dreary.
  • direExpressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
  • disconsolateCheerless, dreary.
  • dismalCausing despair; gloomy and bleak.
  • dolefulFilled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
  • dolesomeCharacterised or marked by sorrow and grief; doleful; dismal; gloomy.
  • drearDreary.
  • drearisomeCharacterised or marked by dreariness.
  • dreich UK, dialectalBleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.
  • forlornPitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
  • gaylessLacking gaiety; gloomy; somber; drab.
  • grayDreary, gloomy, cloudy.
  • gloomsomeCharacterised or marked by gloom.
  • gloomySuffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
  • grimDismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
  • joylessWithout joy; unhappy, sad.
  • lack-laughterCheerless; sombre; serious.
  • lugubriousGloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
  • melancholyAffected with great sadness or depression.
  • mirthlessLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.
  • miserableOf the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
  • no joke
  • saturnineOf a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
  • somber
  • sombreDark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
  • spiritlessLacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
  • sullenGloomy; dismal; foreboding.
  • sunlessDreary, cheerless.
  • uncheerfulNot cheerful.
  • uncheeryNot cheery; gloomy, pessimistic.
  • unhappy
  • unmerryNot merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
  • wintryChilling, cheerless.
  • woeful
  • solemn obsoleteCheerless, gloomy, sombre.

Meaning of comfortless

  1. adjective Of a person: deprived of comfort; uncomforted.
  2. adjective Of a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.

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Questions about synonyms of comfortless

What is another word for comfortless?
Comfortless has 41 synonyms on Word.ws, such as depressing, grim, melancholy, dreary, miserable, gloomy, sombre and dire.
What does comfortless mean?
Comfortless means of a person: deprived of comfort; uncomforted.

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