uncheerful en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ʌnˈtʃɪəfəl/ (UK)
Etymology
From un- + cheerful.
Meanings
-
Not cheerful.
For now, though, Paramore gets by on good cheer, even during seemingly uncheerful songs.
2007 November 30, “Familiar With Emo, Intimate With Upbeat”, in New York Times:But by the change of her unchearefull looke, / They might perceive she was not well in plight […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more uncheerful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most uncheerful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Synonyms
moody · threnetical · joyless · melancholy · comfortless · saturnine · dejected · sorrowsome · low · mopey · bummed out · querulous · uncheery · ruthful · depressed · desolate · shattered · spiritless · wintry · morose · dolesome · disgruntled · blitheless · depressing · drearisome · dull · grieving · unconsolable · elegiac · woeful · miserable · elegious · despondent · dolesome · gloomy · melancholy · uncheerful · unlively · dreich · atrabilious · miserable · sombre · jawfallen · uncheerful · down · unhappy · lamentful · atrabiliary · gloomy · doleful · tristful · heartsore · despondent · passionate · inconsolable · woeful · cut up · disconsolate · dire · heavy-hearted · saturnine · down in the mouth · disheartened · mirthless · crestfallen · wretched · disconsolate · sombre · no joke · drear · lumpish · mournful · triste · lack-laughter · dismal · gray · blue · gloomsome · down in the dumps · woe · unhappy · wistful · forlorn · threnetic · doleful · woebegone · dark · infelicitous · plaintive · downsome · unmerry · downhearted · bleak · uncheery · uncheery · heartsick · dispirited · forlorn · lugubrious · dreary · low-spirited · cheerless · Plutonic · glum · damp · sunless · chopfallen · lugubrious · Plutonian · cheerless · melancholic · sullen · somber · grim · dismal · solemn · gayless · morose · spiritless · sorrow-ridden · sorrowful · cheerless · grief-stricken · sullen · lachrymose · solemn · chapfallen · joyless · downcast · saddened · sad