UNCHEERFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncheerfulness mean? 

• UNCHEERFULNESS (noun)
  The noun UNCHEERFULNESS has 2 senses:

1. a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness

2. not conducive to cheer or good spirits

  Familiarity information: UNCHEERFULNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCHEERFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

cheerlessness; uncheerfulness

Hypernyms ("uncheerfulness" is a kind of...):

sadness; unhappiness (emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uncheerfulness"):

joylessness (a feeling of dismal cheerlessness)

Derivation:

uncheerful (causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not conducive to cheer or good spirits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("uncheerfulness" is a kind of...):

attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uncheerfulness"):

gloominess; lugubriousness; sadness (the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness)

Holonyms ("uncheerfulness" is a part of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Antonym:

cheerfulness (the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom)

Derivation:

uncheerful (causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)