All joyless synonyms

adjective joyless

• miserable — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
• cheerless — Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing.
• depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
• bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
• desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
• unhappy — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
• dreary — causing sadness or gloom.
• gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• dour — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
• dejected — If you are dejected, you feel miserable or unhappy, especially because you have just been disappointed by something.
• dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
• downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
• black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
• blue — Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
• depressant — able to diminish or reduce nervous or functional activity
• depressed — If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.
• dispirited — discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.
• dispiriting — to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
• doleful — sorrowful; mournful; melancholy: a doleful look on her face.
• dragged — to draw with force, effort, or difficulty; pull heavily or slowly along; haul; trail: They dragged the carpet out of the house.
• droopy — hanging down; sagging.
• heavy — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
• low — to utter by or as by lowing.
• melancholic — disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy.
• melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
• mopey — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
• sad — Systems Analysis Definition
• saddening — causing someone to become sad
• somber — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.