See cheerless in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Tending to cause sadness or low spirits:
blue, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, joyless, melancholy, sad. See happyDark and depressing:
black, bleak, blue, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See happy, light
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