UNCHEERFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncheerful mean? 

• UNCHEERFUL (adjective)
  The adjective UNCHEERFUL has 1 sense:

1. causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

  Familiarity information: UNCHEERFUL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCHEERFUL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

Synonyms:

cheerless; depressing; uncheerful

Context example:

an uncheerful place

Similar:

blue; dark; dingy; disconsolate; dismal; drab; drear; dreary; gloomy; grim; sorry (causing dejection)

melancholy; somber; sombre (grave or even gloomy in character)

Also:

unhappy (experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent)

joyless (not experiencing or inspiring joy)

Attribute:

cheer; cheerfulness; sunniness; sunshine (the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom)

Derivation:

uncheerfulness (not conducive to cheer or good spirits)

uncheerfulness (a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness)

 Context examples 

In about half an hour her mother returned, and though her eyes were red, her countenance was not uncheerful.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The walls were papered, the floor was carpeted; the windows were neither less perfect nor more dim than those of the drawing-room below; the furniture, though not of the latest fashion, was handsome and comfortable, and the air of the room altogether far from uncheerful.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Edward made no answer; but when she had turned away her head, gave her a look so serious, so earnest, so uncheerful, as seemed to say, that he might hereafter wish the distance between the parsonage and the mansion-house much greater.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)