joyless — OET

joyless

adjective

1 a narrow-minded, joyless man:

gloomy, melancholy, morose, lugubrious, glum, sombre, saturnine, sullen, dour, mirthless, humourless;

unhappy, sad, miserable, depressed, despondent, sunk in gloom, heavy-hearted, doleful, downcast, dejected, dispirited.

▷antonyms cheerful, fun-loving.

2 a joyless room filled with yellowing oil paintings:

depressing, cheerless, gloomy, dreary, bleak, dispiriting, drab, dismal, desolate, wretched, comfortless, austere, stark, sombre, grim;

unwelcoming, uninviting, inhospitable;

literary drear.

▷antonyms pleasant, welcoming.

joyless Oxford Dictionary of English