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uncheered

uncheered adjective: not cheered; left unhappy or desolate.

Adjective

uncheered (comparative more uncheered, superlative most uncheered)

  1. Not cheered; left unhappy or desolate.
    • And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 9, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    • Uncheered by friends, unhissed by foes, the honorable member blandly continued his speech […]1872, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, The Unkind Word, and Other Stories, page 145
  2. Not cheered or applauded.

Forms of uncheered

comparativemore uncheered
superlativemost uncheered

Origin of uncheered

From un- + cheered.

Questions about uncheered

What does uncheered mean?
Uncheered means not cheered; left unhappy or desolate.
What part of speech is uncheered?
Uncheered is an adjective.

Words near uncheered in the dictionary

  1. unchecking
  2. uncheckmated
  3. unchecks
  4. uncheckt
  5. uncheerable
  6. uncheered
  7. uncheerful
  8. uncheerfully
  9. uncheerfulness
  10. uncheerily
  11. uncheeriness

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