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Synonyms of mirthless

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

Synonyms and similar words for mirthless

adjectiveLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.

  • bleakUnhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
  • unmirthfulNot mirthful.
  • cheerlessDevoid of cheer; gloomy.
  • comfortlessOf a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.
  • 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.
  • drearyDrab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • funny as a dose of the clapNot at all amusing.
  • jokelessDevoid of jokes.
  • humorlessLacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
  • laughlessDevoid of laughs.
  • nonhumorousNot humorous.
  • unhilariousNot hilarious; devoid of hilarity.
  • unhumorousNot humorous.
  • unhystericalNot hysterical.
  • unjocoseNot jocose.
  • unlaughableNot laughable; at which one cannot or should not laugh.
  • solemn obsoleteCheerless, gloomy, sombre.
  • irrisible archaicNot risible; unfunny or unable to make laugh.
  • unjocular rareNot jocular; without good humour.

Meaning of mirthless

  1. adjective Lacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.

Full definition of mirthless

mirthless in other languages

Questions about synonyms of mirthless

What is another word for mirthless?
Mirthless has 54 synonyms on Word.ws, such as depressing, grim, melancholy, dreary, miserable, gloomy, sombre and dire.
What does mirthless mean?
Mirthless means lacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mirthless (page history and authors) and the entries of the words listed. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws grouped the synonyms and antonyms by meaning and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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