Crossword-Solution: JOYLESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Joyless | a. | Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable. |
We have 36 clues for the answer “JOYLESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Devoid of pleasure | 1 answer |
| oppressing | 14 answers |
| depressant | 17 answers |
| unlively | 21 answers |
| Down in the dumps | 24 answers |
| Saturnine | 27 answers |
| Pessimistic | 30 answers |
| dolesome | 31 answers |
| heartsick | 32 answers |
| dispiriting | 35 answers |
| lamentable | 36 answers |
| Lackadaisical | 37 answers |
| comfortless | 37 answers |
| unhopeful | 38 answers |
| lugubrious | 44 answers |
| humourless | 46 answers |
| Droopy | 49 answers |
| dispirited | 51 answers |
| Bleak | 52 answers |
| melancholic | 53 answers |
| Cheerless | 55 answers |
| Unsmiling | 57 answers |
| Crestfallen | 58 answers |
| disappointed | 58 answers |
| Mournful | 63 answers |
| listless | 64 answers |
| Dejected | 65 answers |
| woeful | 67 answers |
| Downcast | 68 answers |
| Dreary | 68 answers |
| Glum | 69 answers |
| Moody | 69 answers |
| mourning | 69 answers |
| Pitiful | 71 answers |
| Dour | 73 answers |
| unhappy | 73 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with JOYLESS (5)
Here Love his golden shafts imploies, here lights His constant Lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile Of Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, nor in Court Amours Mixt Dance, or wanton Mask, or Midnight Bal, Or Serenate, which the starv’d Lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.
Last comes the worst and most abhorred stage Of unregarded age, Joyless, companionless and slow, Of woes the crowning woe.
Then spoke Ralph: "True it is that I am not fain to take the wages of the Burg; for it seems to me that they be hard men, and cruel and joyless, and that their service shall be rather churlish than knightly.
The arrival of Felix and his sister was a satisfaction, but it was a singularly joyless and inelastic satisfaction.
Below, straight streets, monotonous, From north and south, from east and west, Stretch glittering; and luminous Above, one tower tops the rest And holds aloft man's constant quest: Time! Joyless emblem of the greed Of millions, robber of the best Which earth can give, the vulgar creed Has seared upon the night its flaming ruthless screed.
Quotes with JOYLESS (3)
Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of Mankind, the Misanthrope flies from it: He resolves to become an Hermit, and buries himself in the Cavern of some gloomy Rock. While Hate inflames his bosom, possibly He may feel contented with his situation: But when his passions begin to cool; when Time has mellowed his sorrows, and healed those…
We often pity the poor, because they have no leisure to mourn their departed relatives, and necessity obliges them to labor through their severest afflictions: but is not active employment the best remedy for overwhelming sorrow--the surest antidote for despair? It may be a rough comforter: it may seem hard to be harassed with the cares of life when we have no relish for its enjoyments; to be goaded to labor when the heart is ready to break, and the vexed spirit implores for …
It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1978–2022).