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Uncheerful vs Cheerless - What's the difference?

uncheerful | cheerless |

As adjectives the difference between uncheerful and cheerless

is that uncheerful is not cheerful while cheerless is devoid of cheer; gloomy.

uncheerful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not cheerful.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.7:
  • *:But by the change of her unchearefull looke, / They might perceive she was not well in plight […].
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=November 30, author=, title=Familiar With Emo, Intimate With Upbeat, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=For now, though, Paramore gets by on good cheer, even during seemingly uncheerful songs. }}

    Derived terms

    * uncheerfully * uncheerfulness

    cheerless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • devoid of cheer; gloomy

    • Synonyms

    * See also