joyless

Adjective

Meaning

Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

down blue darkling crestfallen dark upset unhappy depressed sad sorry miserable melancholy distressed bleak grim
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Antonyms

joyous merry jolly blithe good successful
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Phrases with the word

be joyless

Examples

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. Betty Friedan

Lord Peter Wimsey: The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. Dorothy L. Sayers

Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome. Hartley Coleridge

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. Alan Moore

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless. Dorothy L. Sayers

I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven. Soren Kierkegaard

Close letter words and terms

joyhouse joyish joykiller joylessly joylessness joylike