Definition of “cheerless”

As the cheerless shadows of the early evening began to fall the Company made ready to set out.

But Lever's dalliance with ice-creams, despite the fact that the takeover of Kwality gave it a 50 per cent marketshare, has been cheerless.

Donal Davoren, who shares a cheerless room with a pedlar, Seumas Shields, is a handsome young poet with a taste for Shelley.

Hansen's trademark is his dour analysis, but he has surely never been so cheerless about his beloved sport.

It was a cheerless room, designed to offer no comfort, but Connors showed little apprehension.

It was so cheerless without him that she was almost crying again.

On the way you pass over a cheerless , bleak, and empty region, where even the hardy conifers have given up trying to take root.

Thus the half-built tract house, clad in its pink, Comfort-brand insulation, sits open-roofed in the snow, beneath a cheerless , grey sky.