- Types Of Speech
- You can use joyless as a article in a sentence.
- About Joyless
- A 2 syllables article and 7 letters with the letters e, j, l, o, s, and y, 5 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter l. Joyless starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters j, jo, joy, joyl, joyle, and the ending characters are s, ss, ess, less, yless, . Joyless is also a double consonant (ss) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- Not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings"
- Compound Words
- A compound word, joyless has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are joy, and less.
- Scrabble
- Is joyless a scrabble word? A 17 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Joyless in Pig Latin is said as "oylessjay or oylessjway".
- Unigram
- j | o | y | l | e | s | s
- Bigram
- jo | oy | yl | le | es | ss
- Trigram
- joy | oyl | yle | les | ess
- Quadrigram
- joyl | oyle | yles | less
- Word Gram
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Affecting | arousing affect "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene" "poignant grief cannot endure forever" "his gratitude was simple and touching" |
| Afflictive | causing misery or pain or distress "it was a sore trial to him" "the painful process of growing up" |
| Anguished | experiencing intense pain especially mental pain "an anguished conscience" "a small tormented schoolboy" "a tortured witness to another''s humiliation" |
| Anxious | mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc worried "anxious parents" "anxious about her job" "not used to a city and anxious about small things" "felt apprehensive about the consequences" |
| Appalling | an experience that appalls "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?" |
| Apprehensive | in fear or dread of possible evil or harm "apprehensive for one''s life" "apprehensive of danger" |
| Ascetic | practices self denial as spiritual discipline |
| Ascetical | practicing great self-denial "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James "a desert nomad''s austere life" "a spartan diet" "a spartan existence" |
| Austere | practicing great self-denial "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James "a desert nomad''s austere life" "a spartan diet" "a spartan existence" |
| Awkward | not at ease socially unsure and constrained in manner "awkward and reserved at parties" "ill at ease among eddies of people he didn''t know" "was always uneasy with strangers" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Joyless
| Antonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Joyous | full of or suggesting exultant happiness "a joyful heart" "a joyful occasion" "the joyous news" "joyous laughter" |
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Joyless | not experiencing or inspiring joy "a joyless man" "a joyless occasion" "joyless evenings" |
View English words with the unique letters used in joyless. Words With The Letters Ejlosy
| Similar Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Funereal | suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" |
| Mirthless | lacking mirth |
| Sepulchral | suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" |
| Unamused | lacking mirth |
| Unsmiling | not smiling |
| See Also | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cheerless | lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
| Sorrowful | experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13 |
| Uncheerful | lacking cheer; depressing; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
| Unhappy | generalized feeling of distress |
| Title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Negative Feelings | Describe joyless | A word list of negative feeling words and the best English words to describe negative emotions. Emotional negative words... read more |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyless (7 letters) | 17 | 19 | joyless | ||
| Joylessly (9 letters) | 22 +5 | 24 +5 | joylessly | ||
| Jocosely (8 letters) | 20 +3 | 23 +4 | jocosely |
Joyless Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With J
- Ends With S
- Spelled With / Contains Letters

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