Cheerless - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 25/06/2023

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Cheerless.

5 letter answer(s) to cheerless

BLEAK
  1. offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
  2. providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
  3. small freshwater coarse fish
  4. unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
DREAR
  1. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
STARK
  1. complete or extreme; "stark poverty"; "a stark contrast"
  2. completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
  3. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment; "the blunt truth"; "the crude facts"; "facing the stark reality of the deadline"
  4. providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
  5. severely simple;
  6. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

6 letter answer(s) to cheerless

DISMAL
  1. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

7 letter answer(s) to cheerless

DOLEFUL
  1. dull
  2. filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"

4 letter answer(s) to cheerless

DRAB
  1. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  2. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
  3. lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
  4. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab personality"; "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary dinner parties"
  5. of a light brownish green color

3 letter answer(s) to cheerless

SAD
  1. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
  2. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
  3. More miserable
  4. of things that make you feel sad; "sad news"; "she doesn't like sad movies"; "it was a very sad story"; "When I am dead, my dearest, / Sing no sad songs for me"- Christina Rossetti
  5. Unhappy

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Bleak
Bleak for Blake being day behind?
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Bleak, in verse
Blue
Blue almost all absent from greens
Blue fish not caught
Blue movies BAFTA recognised at last!
Blunt
Boring day with mother
Brown family member
Bummed
Bummed out
Cold and raw fish
Cold and unwelcoming
Cold fish
Cold island imports temperature
Colorless
Complaint letters periodically dispatched from island
Dejected
Deplorable
Deplorably poor
Depressed
Depressing
Depressingly dull or repetitive
Desolate
Detective, mostly insignificant and feeble
Dickens' novel, ____ House
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Dingy
Discouraging
Dismal
Dismal, to Donne
Dispirited
Down
Down current unseen in Egyptian port
Down in the dumps
Down south and missing north
Down south in these times
Downcast
Downhearted
Drearily dull
Dreary
Dreary poet rejected
Dreary poet returns
Dreary, gloomy
Duke is fellow endlessly sad
Dull
Dull as dishwater
Dull poet from the East
Dull poet is sent up
Dull poet making a comeback
Dull spot around Reading, for example
Dull, bleak
Dull, but finally played minster organ
Dull, in poetry
Dull-colored
Elegiac
Evoking an "eh"
Face accommodating unusual sexual practices? Not encouraging
Far from festive
Feeling sorrow
First of documents to bring up is dull
Flipping poor housing close to river's dingy
Frowning
Frumpy
Gloomy
Gloomy book to exfiltrate for publication
Gloomy daughter's back
Gloomy investigator’s hit, done over
Gloomy judge incarcerates Liberal
Gloomy little sergeant major with face put out
Gloomy maids wandering by lake
Gloomy rapper with role in record company
Gloomy sergeant major has face put out
Gloomy, in poetry
Gloomy, in verse
Gloomy, literarily
Glum
Gray
Grayish
Grey flatfish crossing river
Grim
Grim black hole
Grim judge impounds laptop
Hardly cheery
Hardly colorful
Hardly encouraging
Hardly exciting
Harsh
Heads of state are disproportionately unhappy
Heavy-hearted
Ho-hum
Humdrum
In a blue funk
In a funk
In low spirits
In the doldrums
In the dumps
In trouble, a king's miserable
Inferior, as excuses go
Insufficient, as an excus
It's dismal in poetry putting attention on darker edges
Jerry Lewis movie "The __
Just about hopeless
Kind of story
Lacking brightness, poet is sent up
Lacking color
Lacking colour
Lackluster
Lacklustre Eisteddfod winner retired
Last-ditch opening to lose weight? No time
Like a moonscape
Like many a contrast
Like some commentary
Like some prospects
Long-faced
Low
Lugubrious
Methodism allows drinking? Very disappointing
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Miserable daughter back
Miserable face sergeant major wears
Miserable face sergeant-major wears
Miserable sergeant-major breaking clock face?
Moping
Mournful
Needing buoying
Not promising
Not up
Of a dull greenish-brown colour
Offering little hope
Periodically stand down
Pessimist - is my jam mild?
Poet turned dull
Poor reader initially held up - 'It's boring' ...
Rather dull sailor put under the doctor
Read out, say, writing that's depressingly dull in literary terms
Regrettable
Ringo's original surname
Sad face, taking in storm on vacation
Said when one leaves in low spirits
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Severe in appearance
Severe looking; naked
Shabby poet recalled
Singing the blues
Small bill is miserable
Somber
Sorrowful
Sorrowful face after accepting unusual sexual style
Sorry
Swimmer looking miserable
Tar on road turned grey
The German returns depressed
The German’s upset and unhappy
Time in Channel island is bleak
Tradesmen finally leaving brand new flat
Unexciting
Unfortunate
Unhappy
Unhappy almost everything’s gone from healthy food option?
Unhappy workers finally given notice
Uninteresting doctor meets sailor
Unpromising
Very gloomy-looking judge hoovering up line
Visually dull
Void of any va-va-voom
Woebegone
Woeful
Wretched
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