joyless
Adjective
Without joy; unhappy, sad.
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Without Joy, my life is joyless!
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The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.
“It comes from chasing the fun,” says Regan. “A lot of the working-class cinema I grew up watching was so joyless. Endless trauma.”
Adjective
not experiencing or inspiring joy
- Antonyms
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a joyless man
a joyless occasion
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joyless evenings
Word forms
more joylessmost joyless