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unjoyous

unjoyous adjective: not joyous.

Adjective

unjoyous (comparative more unjoyous, superlative most unjoyous)

  1. Not joyous.
    • It is from the animal joy of mechanics or peasants in their cessations from labor, or from their celebration of festivals, that the artist will select his matter of composition; not from any circumstances of unjoyous poverty or loathsome distress.1772, Giovanni-Andrea Gallini, A Treatise on the Art of Dancing
    • On emerging from the Old Manse, it was chiefly this strange, indolent, unjoyous attachment for my native town, that brought me to fill a place in Uncle Sam's brick edifice, when I might as well, or better, have gone somewhere else.1878, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Forms of unjoyous

comparativemore unjoyous
superlativemost unjoyous

Origin of unjoyous

From un- + joyous.

Words formed from unjoyous

Questions about unjoyous

What does unjoyous mean?
Unjoyous means not joyous.
What part of speech is unjoyous?
Unjoyous is an adjective.

Words near unjoyous in the dictionary

  1. unjoy
  2. unjoyed
  3. unjoyful
  4. unjoyfully
  5. unjoyfulness
  6. unjoyous
  7. unjoyously
  8. unjoyousness
  9. unjoys
  10. unjubilant
  11. unjudgable

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