What does joyless mean?
Joyless means Without joy; unhappy, sad..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Without joy; unhappy, sad..
Without Joy, my life is joyless!
The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.
“It comes from chasing the fun,” says Regan. “A lot of the working-class cinema I grew up watching was so joyless. Endless trauma.”
Use joyless when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Joyless means Without joy; unhappy, sad..
Common synonyms include sad, cheerless, sepulchral, mirthless.
Possible antonyms include joyous.
Without Joy, my life is joyless!
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